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YALE     COLLEGE. 


SECRETARY'S    REPORT, 


STATISTICS 


OF 


THE   CLASS  OF  1857, 


yj^le  college. 


COLLECTED   BY 

DANIEL     0.    EATON, 

Class    Secretary. 


PUBLISHED     BY     ORDEK     OF     THE     CLASS. 


NEW-YORK: 
JOHN    A.    GRAY,   PRINTER,    STEREOTYPER,    AND    BINDER, 

FIRE-PKOOP  BUILDINGS, 
CORNER    OF   FRANKFORT   AND   JACOB    STREETS. 

1861. 


5  7s 


PREFACE 


My  Classmates  : — I  believe  it  is  everywhere  acknowledged,  that 
in  demands  upon  one's  time  and  thoughts,  business  should  take 
precedence  of  pleasure.  The  pursuit  which  I  have  chosen  is  one 
that  makes  constant  and  untiring  devotion  the  only  path  to  suc- 
cess. This  is  the  only  apology  I  offer  you  for  the  somewhat  tardy 
appearance  of  this  Report. 

I  have  used  the  word  pleasure^  because  the  compiling  of  this 
little  book  has  been  to  me  a  source  of  much  pleasure.  It  has 
brought  me  into  more  intimate  relations  of  friendship  with  many 
of  you  than  I  had  enjoyed  in  College.  It  has  given  me  oppor- 
tunities— for  which  I  am  thankful — to  be  happy  in  the  joys  of  my 
classmates,  as  well  as  to  sympathize  with  them  in  the  adverse 
strokes  of  fortune,  which  at  times  fall  upon  us  all.  It  has  revealed 
to  me  a  kindness  of  heart  and  a  brotherly  confidence  on  the  part 
of  many  of  those  to  whom  I  write,  of  which  I  may  now  confess  that 
I  was  not  formerly  so  fully  aware.  It  has  given  me  a  pleasant  em- 
ployment for  my  few  hours  of  leisure;  it  has  initiated  nie  into 
some  of  the  mysteries  of  book-making;  and  it  has  been  the  means 
of  teaching  me  more  and  more  deeply  to  reverence  our  Alma 
Mater,  and  to  value  more  and  more  highly  the  blessings  that  she 
lavishes  upon  her  children. 

You  will  all  regret  to  find  that  of  some  of  those  w^ho  graduated 
with  us  my  statistics  are  imperfect.  This  is  not  through  any  lack 
of  attention  on  my  part,  but  is  partly  due  to  the  unsettled  life  and 
unknown  resting-places  of  some  of  our  number,  or  in  a  very  few 
instances,  to  what  seems  to  be  a  carelessness  of  that  duty  which,  as 
classmates,  we  owe  to  one  another.  In  respect  to  those  who  for  any 
reason  did  not  graduate  with  the  rest  of  us,  the  same  reasons,  true 
in  a  much  greater  degree,  must  account  for  a  still  more  imperfect 


IV  PREFACE. 

record.  Indeed,  there  are  those  whom  we  once  greeted  as  class- 
mates, who  have  declined  to  furnish  any  record  of  themselves,  and 
have  requested  that  their  names  should  have  no  place  in  this  Re- 
port. While  we  regret  the  course  they  have  taken,  let  us  give 
them  our  good  wishes  for  their  prosperity. 

The  number  of  speeches  reported  in  the  account  of  our  Tri- 
ennial Meeting  is,  I  believe,  unprecedented.  I  have  therefore 
thought  fit  to  abridge  one  or  two  of  them,  for  which  I  hope  I  may 
be  pardoned.  I  desire  to  urge  upon  the  Class  the  fact  that  it  will 
make  my  labors  much  lighter  if  they  will,  without  any  applica- 
tion for  information  from  me,  promptly  notify  me  of  any  changes 
in  their  relations  to  the  community.  I  wish  to  be  informed 
of  all  ordinations,  admissions  to  practice  law  or  medicine,  forma- 
tions of  business  copartnerships,  academical  or  university  degrees, 
travels  to  foreign  lands,  returns  home  again,  marriages,  births, 
deaths,  appointments  to  offices  in  the  gift  of  the  people  or  of  the 
people's  servants — in  short,  tell  me  of  any  personal  news  that  the 
man  who  sat  next  you  in  chapel  would  like  to  hear,  or  ought  to 
hear,  whether  he  like  it  or  not.  Lastly,  let  no  one  of  you  fail  to  be 
in  New-Haven  to  attend  our  next  Class-meeting  in  July,  1863. 

And  so,  with  my  best  wishes,  and  my  sincerest  regard  for  every 
one  of  you,  my  classmates,  farewell ! 

Daniel  C.  Eaton. 

New-Yoek,  February  7,  1861. 


§lu^   ^uiinp. 


Immediately  after  tlie  speaking  for  the  De  Forest 
Gold  Medal,  on  Friday,  June  19th,  1857,  the  Class  met 
for  the  last  time  before  Commencement  in  the  Presi- 
dent's lecture-room,  and,  beside  other  business,  passed  a 
resolution  to  have  a  portrait  "  painted,  of  Professor 
Thacher  by  Elliott  of  Kew-York,  and  appointed  A.  M. 
Wheeler  a  committee  to  collect  the  necessary  money  of 
the  Class,  and  to  otherwise  take  the  whole  matter  in 
charge  ;  the  portrait  to  be  placed  in  the  Trumbull  Gal- 
lery. At  this  meeting,  also,  E.  W.  Blake  was  elected 
Class  Secretary,  and  D.  C.  Eaton  substitute.  The  for- 
mer declining  the  office,  the  daties  have  fallen  upon  the 
present  incumbent. 

In  glad  compliance  with  the  invitations  of  our  class- 
mates Cone  and  Bay,  ten  of  the  Class  were  entertained 
with  a  sumptuous  banquet  given  at  his  father's  house  by 
the  former,  October  28th,  1857,  and  the  same  evening 
we  attended  a  very  pleasant  and  elegant  party  at  the 
home  of  the  latter,  where  the  fair  maidens  of  Hartford 
made  the  deepest  impression  upon  the  susceptibilities  of 
some  members  of  the  Class,  one  of  the  fairest  of  them 
all  even  now  holding  undisputed  sway  in  the  heart  of 
her  conquest,  and  reigning  among  the  wives  of  '57. 


6  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

Twenty-five  members  of  tlie  Class  met  in  the  Presi- 
dent's lecture-room  at  noon  and  in  tlie  evening  of  Wed- 
nesday, July  28tli,  1858.  Scoville,  and  afterwards 
Jackson,  were  called  to  the  chair.  "Letters  were  read 
from  many  of  the  Class ;  the  roll  was  read,  and  eagerly 
was  any  news  of  each  one  received,  or  sorrowfully  was 
it  confessed  that  no  one  knew  what  had  become  of  him. 
We  went  in  the  course  of  the  day  to  look  at  our  pic- 
ture of  the  revered  Professor  of  Latin.  We  thought  it 
was  rather  dark,  and  did  not  look  as  much  like  him  as 
we  thought  it  might,  but  were  afraid  to  say  much  about 
it,  not  being  judges  of  the  fine  arts.  In  the  evening 
we  had  a  good  time,  talking  together,  singing  our  old 
songs,  and  unanimously  accepting  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  Peanuts  and  Peaches. 

About  twenty  of  the  Class  met  in  the  usual  place  on 
Wednesday,  July  27th,  1859,  and  appointed  a  commit- 
tee, consisting  of  the  Secretary,  Gray,  PI.  C.  Pratt,  Wil- 
der Smith,  and  Woodruff,  to  arrange  the  Triennial 
Meeting  in  1860. 

We  sat  together  at  the  Commencement  lunch  in 
Alumni  Hall,  and  ate  our  sandwiches  and  ice-cream  in 
peaceful  happiness.  When  lunch  was  over,  and  Presi- 
dent Woolsey  had  returned  thanks,  (may  he  long  live  to 
do  so !)  the  other  four  hundred  Alumni  went  back  to  the 
Commencement  exercises,  but  %oe  gathered  together  in 
the  shade  of  an  old  elm  in  front  of  North  Middle. 
Being  graduates,  we  did  not  have  before  our  eyes  the 
fear  of  newly  invented  anti-vocal  regulations ;  but  in 
singing,  laughing,  smoking  and  chatting,  we  contrived 
to  make  a  good  deal  of  noise,  and  to  have  a  very  good 
time. 


CLASS  MEETINGS. 


CLASS     OF     1851 

WILL  MEET  ON 

IN  THE  PRESIDENT'S  LECTURE-ROOM, 
AT  12  M. ; 

IN    TME    NE"W-HAVEN    MOTEIi, 
AT  10  P.M. 


CLASS  COMMITTEE-ROOM,  165  D.  C. 


On  tlie  day  named,  posters  like  the  above,  but  very 
much  larger,  on  the  elms  and  at  the  hotels,  at  Pease's 
bookstore  and  on  Heermance's  door,  (165  D.  C.,)  met 
the  eyes  of  the  citizens  of  New-Haven,  and  the  stran- 
gers sojourning  therein,  as  well  as  those  of  more  than  half 
the  Class  of  1857,  who  could  easily  be  distinguished  from 
all  other  persons  by  their  extravagant  joy  at  meeting 
each  other,  shown  especially  by  their  energetic  w^ay  of 
shaking  hands,  and  by  their  noisy  and  hearty  words  of 
mutual  welcome. 

Next  to  the  Class,  the  happiest  man  in  the  city  was 
Professor  Langdon  ;  delighted  to  see  again  a  Class  who 
were  peculiarly  his  friends,  and  in  whose  marvelous 
physical  development  he  doubtless  rejoiced  to  see  the 
best  of  testimony  to  the  excellence  of  his  system  of 
hygienic  exercises. 

Fifty-four  graduate  members  of  the  Class  were  pre- 
sent at  some  time  in  the  day,  namely :  Allen,  Barrows, 
Beard,  Blackman,  Blake,  Bradish,  Bradner,  Bucldancl, 
Butler,  Case,  Chamberlin,  Colles,  Cone,  De  Forest,  But- 
ton, Dye,  Eaton,  Edwards,  Forrest,  Freeland,  Frost, 
Gray,  Hitchcock,  Hodge,  Holbrook,  Holden,  Holmes, 
Hubbell,  Hulbert,  Huntington,  Jackson,  Jones,  Learned, 
Marshall,  Matson,  Merwin,  Nolen,  Northrop,  Palmer, 
Perkins,  G.  Pratt,  H.  C.  Pratt,  Roberts,  Savary,  Seely, 
Seymour,  J.  J.  Smith,  Wilder  Smith,  Strong,  Thomas, 


8  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

Thompson,  K  D.  Wells,  Wheeler,  Woodruff;  and  of 
those  members  of  the  Class  who  did  not  graduate  with 
us,  there  were  present  four  more — E.  L.  Heermance,  D. 
G,  Porter,  H.  Powers,  and  G.  B.  St.  John,— fifty-eight 
in  all. 

At  noon  of  Wednesday,  July  25th,  1860,  we  met 
in  the  President's  lecture-room  to  attend  to  business. 
Northrop  was  placed  in  the  chair.  Marshall  and 
Woodruff  were  appointed  a  committee  to  collect  a  tax 
of  five  dollars  from  each  of  their  classmates,  to  pro- 
vide for  the  various  expenses  of  the  meeting. 

The  editors  of  the  Yale  Lit,  announced  that,  unlike 
other  Classes,  we  were  not  to  be  taxed  for  any  old  debt 
on  Maga,  which  announcement  was  gladly  received. 
Seymour  was  elected  President  of  the  evening  meeting, 
and  after  other  less  important  business,  the  Class  ad- 
journed till  evening.  All  through  the  day  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Class  were  revisitinsr  their  old  haunts,  hunt- 
ing  up  old  friends,  passing  pleasant  hours  in  telling  their 
three  years'  story  to  each  other,  and  in  paying  their  re- 
spects to  five  ladies,  representing  "  The  Wives  of  '5Y," 
who  honored  and  graced  the  Class-meeting  with  their 
inspiring  presence.  A  special  Committee  on  Music,  who 
were  forbidden  to  spoil  their  voices  by  cheering,  met  in 
the  afternoon  at  Heermance's  room,  and  practiced  the 
songs  to  be  sung  in  the  evening.  The  Secretary  desires 
also  to  make  honorable  mention  of  Levi  Holbeook, 
who  was  of  the  greatest  assistance  in  attending  to  vari- 
ous items  of  business,  and  in  revising  the  proof-sheets  of 
the  songs  for  the  evening  meeting. 

At  half-past  nine  in  the  evening  the  Class  met  again 
in  the  President's  lecture-room,  and  at  ten  marched 
over  to  the  New-Haven  Hotel,  where  the  worthy  land- 
lord, Mr.  Allis,  had  arranged  the  tables  in  the  form  of 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  9 

the  Greek  letter  n,  symbolical  of  the  good  things  set 
before  us,  as  well  as  of  the  high  scholarly  character  of 
those  that  were  to  sit  at  the  table.  The  Rev.  Chaeles 
B.  Dye  asked  for  the  blessing  of  God  on  the  Class,  after 
which  for  an  hour  or  more  we  did  our  conjoined  and 
individual  utmost  to  relieve  the  tables  of  the  feast 
spread  upon  them.  But  as  fast  as  we  made  one  course 
to  vanish,  another  array  of  tempting  dainties  appeared 
before  us,  until  the  approaching  limit  of  our  capacity 
warned  us  that  it  was  time  to  stop. 

Havino:  finished  the  first  entertainment,  we  inauo'u- 
rated  the  second  by  rising  to  receive  a  party  of  fair 
ladies,  wives,  sisters,  and  friends  of  the  Class.  These 
were  conducted  to  honorable  seats  on  the  right  of  the 
President. 

The  Class  then  sung 

GAUDEAMUS. 


Gaudeamus  igitur, 

Juvenes  dum  sumus ; 
Post  jucundam  juventutem, 
Post  molestam  senectatem, 
Nos  habebit  humus. 

Ubi  sunt,  qui  ante  nos 

In  mundo  fuere? 
Transeas  ad  superos, 
Abeas  ad  inferos, 

Qaos  si  vis  videre. 

Vita  nostra  brevis  est, 

Brevi  finietur ; 
Venit  mors  velociter, 
Rapit  nos  atrociter, 

Nemini  parcetur. 

Vivat  academia, 

Vivant  professores, 
Vivat  membrum  quodlibet, 
Vivant  membra  quaelibet, 
Semper  sint  in  flore. 


Vivant  omnes  virgines 
Faciles,  formosae  ; 

Vivant  et  mulieres, 

Tenerse,  amabiles, 
Bonge,  laboriosse. 

Pereat  tristitia, 

Pereant  osores, 
Pereat  diabolus, 
Quivis  antiburschius, 

Atque  irrisores. 

Quis  confluxus  hodie 

Academicorum  ? 
E  longinquo  convenerunt 
Protinusque  successerunt 

In  commune  forum. 

Alma  mater  floreat, 

Qua3  nos  educavit, 
Caros  et  commilitones, 
Dissitas  in  regiones 
Sparsos,  congregavit. 


10  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

As  the  echoes  of  our  song  died  away  in  the  distant 
valleys  of  East  and  West  Kocks,  the  President  of  the 
evening,  Stoees  Ozias  Seymoue,  of  Litchfield,  address- 
ed the  Class  in  a  few  words  as  follows : 

My  Brothee  Classmates  : — Once  more  has  Father  Time 
"brought  around  the  high  festival  of  the  Yalensian  year.  Once 
again  have  the  tribes  come  up  hither  from  all  parts  of  the  world, 
to  lay  their  offering  of  loving  affection  at  the  feet  of  their  Ahna 
Mater.  But  of  all  who  have  thus  assembled,  I  am  sure  that  none 
have  come  with  brighter  anticipations  than  the  members  of  the 
Class  of  1857;  and  upon  me  has  devolved  the  pleasant  duty  of 
extending  to  them  all  a  cordial  welcome  to  this  joyful  meeting, 
and  I  do  it  with  a  heart  full  of  thanksgiving  that  I  am  permitted 
to  be  here  to-night,  and  once  more  to  meet  so  many  loved  faces. 

It  is  not  love  for  Alma  Mater  alone,  however,  which  has  brought 
so  many  of  us  together  at  this  time  ;  for  the  affections  can  not 
wreathe  themselves  round  an  abstract  idea.  It  is  not  love  for 
Alma  Mater  alone;  it  is  love  for  each  other — Class-love,  Class- 
spirit  ;  that  spirit  which  manifested  itself  in  every  Class  action  ; 
that  spirit  which  carried  us  in  an  unbroken  phalanx  over  the  Class 
of  '58  on  the  foot-ball  ground  ;  that  spirit  which,  showing  itself  in 
the  individual,  drove  the  Sophomores  headlong  down  the  stairs 
when  they  came  to  smoke  out  one  of  our  number ;  that  spirit 
which  made  us  renowned  for  our  singing  and  cheering ;  the  spirit 
which  is  stirring  in  the  hearts  of  us  all  to-night,  filling  them  too 
full  for  words,  and  which  beams  so  brightly  forth  from  all  the  faces 
around  me.  This  it  is  which  has  brought  us  together,  and  which 
will  make  this  a  night  long  to  be  remembered. 

A  cause  for  congratulation,  as  it  seems  to  me,  may  be  found  in 
the  fact  that  there  has  been  so  little  change  in  the  personal  appear- 
ance of  the  Class.  We  have  not  to  study  the  countenances  of  one 
and  another,  and  then  discover  only  a  dim  resemblance  to  the 
friends  of  College  days,  but  there  he  stands,  looking  so  like  the 
good  fellow  he  used  to  be,  that  it  seems  as  if  we  had  been  separat- 
ed for  only  a  short  vacation.  Time  has  been  content  with  improv- 
ing you  in  other  respects,  and  happily  has  left  your  good  looks 
alone. 

But  I  will  detain  you  no  longer  from  the  festivities  of  the  even- 
ing.    Permit  mc  once  more  to  extend  to  you  a  hearty  welcome ; 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  11 

and,  thanking  you  from  a  full  heart  for  asking  me  to  preside  over 
this  our  first  Class-meeting,  let  me  express  the  hope  that,  being 
spared  to  enjoy  many  such  meetings  as  this,  we  may  at  last  be  all 
gathered  to  a  perennial  meeting  in  heaven. 

The  doors  were  then  thrown  open,  and  with  nine  re- 
verberating cheers,  we  received 

THE  CLASS-BOY, 

Edmond  Ducre  Estilette,  Jr.,  son  of  Edmond  Ducre 
EsTiLETTE  of  Louisiana.  The  Boy  entered  at  the  upper 
end  of  the  hall,  accompanied  by  his  mother  and  a  large 
party  of  admiring  lady  friends.  At  the  same  time  a 
great  number  of  geutlemeu,  members  of  classes  who 
had  no  Class-Boy,  and  others,  entered  at  the  lower  end 
of  the  hall.  Master  Estilette  at  the  time  had  made  our 
planet  his  residence  for  only  twenty-two  months,  and, 
for  a  minute  or  two  after  bis  entrance  into  the  hall,  gave 
tearful  testimony  to  his  surprise  at  suddenly  finding 
himself  in  a  large  room,  full  of  noisy  people  and  be- 
wildering gas-light,  but  soon  regained  his  habitual  tran- 
quillity, and  enjoyed  to  the  utmost  the  succeeding 
ceremonies.  A  Silver  Cup,  appropriately  inscribed, 
which,  had  been  passed  around  the  room,  causing  the 
bachelors  of  the  Class  to  envy  their  married  brethren, 
especially  the  happy  father  of  this  first-born  boy,  was 
then  presented  to  him,  on  behalf  of  the  Class,  by 
Heney  Cleveland  Peatt  of  New- York,  in  the  follow- 
ing words : 

My  Classmates  : — Three  years  ago  our  venerated  Mother  Yale, 
having  led  the  hundred  sons  of  her  adoption  to  varying  elevations 
up  the  steep  of  science,  distributed  among  them  her  classic  apron- 
strings,  with  which  their  diplomas  were  adorned,  and  bade  them 
God-speed  on  the  journey  of  life.  How  many  an  anxious  appre- 
hension thronged  our  thoughts  as  we  were  then  made  to  reahze 
that  our  energies  must  henceforth  act  through  individual  channels, 


12  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

that  the  strength  of  Class-cohesion  could  no  longer  be  ours  !  Still 
lingering  at  the  cloister-doors,  we  stood  on  the  verge  of  active 
life,  like  some  bather  dreading  to  wet  his  feet  in  the  flood,  and 
yet,  when  finally  the  plunge  is  made,  bravely  battling  the  breakers. 

To-day,  experience-laden,  we  have  returned  to  the  mother- 
shrine,  or  sent  from  far-off  homes  the  glad  tidings  of  om*  welfare. 
All  save  two,  on  whom  the  death-angel  early  breathed  his  chilling 
breath,  and  froze  into  indifference  to  the  call  of  their  classmates. 
Embalmed  is  their  memory  in  every  classmate's  heart.  We  have 
come,  eager  to  exchange  experiences,  and  to  renew  allegiance  to 
the  dear  old  University,  whose  hopes,  and  not  whose  fears,  went 
with  us.  We  have  come,  moreover,  to  commemorate  a  custom 
which  is  the  birth  right  of  all  Yalensians— to  recognize  the  infusion 
of  a  new  life  into  the  Class  in  the  birth  of  its  first  foster-child. 

The  Class  of  Fifty-Seven  may  well  boast  an  unblemished  record. 
Its  fellowship  with  all  that  was  noble,  its  abhorrence  of  all  that 
was  mean,  made  it  a  mediator  between  classes,  an  accepted  arbiter 
of  College  friends.  Although  individual  interests  conflicted,  and 
jealousies  crept  in,  as  they  do  in  every  arena  where  the  best  man 
wins,  yet  were  they  never  suffered  to  interrupt  that  harmony 
which  has  always  characterized  our  Class  career. 

"As  adversaries  do  at  law, 
Strive  mightily,  but  eat  and  drink  as  friends  ;" 

so^  strove  we  mightily  in  the  friendly  contest  of  mind,  not  forget- 
ting that  we  were  all  brothers  at  heart. 

The  Class  of  Fifty-Seven  may  be  proud  of  its  consequents,  as 
well  as  of  its  antecedents.  While  the  grateful  incense  of  CoUoge 
praise  and  appreciation  arises  at  every  mention  of  its  College 
course,  its  after-career  has  been  illuminated  by  successes  no  less 
bright  than  those  which  elicited  the  admiration  of  its  fellow-col- 
legians. In  these  days  of  discord,  how  gloriously  has  it  attested 
its  love  of  the  Union,  the  first-fruits  of  which  are  this  night  sub- 
mitted for  the  proud  inspection  of  us  all.  And  here,  at  this  high 
feast  of  good  fellowship,  where  mirth  and  memory  clap  hands, 
it  becomes  us  to  afford  a  fitting  tribute  to  the  graces  and  worth 
which  have  been  grafted  upon  us,  and  to  welcome  those  who,  as 
the  Wives  of  the  Class,  the  chosen  companions  of  its  earthly  pil- 
grimage, lend  us  the  inspiration  of  their  presence. 

And  now,  the  pleasing  duty  devolves  upon  me  of  presenting  to 
this  noble  boy,  Edmdnd  Ducro  Estilctte,  Jr.,  this  silver  goblet,  in 
the  name  and  with  the  blessing  of  his  father's  classmates.     May 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  13 

the  child  be  early  taught  its  significance,  and  while  he  quaffs  many 
a  deep  draught  therefrom,  may  each  be  sweetened,  if  not  with  the 
recollection,  yet  with  the  recognition  of  tbe  cause  of  its  presejita- 
tion.  He  will  ever  carry  with  him  the  heartiest  hopes  of  the 
Class,  that  his  character-composition  may  be  without  the  alloy  of 
base  passions,  and  that,  like  this  cup,  he  may  be  of  sterling  worth. 
The  result  of  the  union  of  a  Southern  father  and  a  Northern 
mother,  the  boy  may  fittingly  represent  that  unity  of  feeling 
which  we  desire  ever  to  cherish  between  the  extremes  of  our 
common  country.  Let  him  but  inherit  the  sturdy  mental  strength 
of  the  one  and  the  rare  virtues  of  the  other,  and  we  have  sufficient 
guarantee  that  our  wish  will  ripen  into  the  fruition  of  fulfillment. 
Let  me  enjoin  upon  the  proud  father,  whose  presence  with  us 
to-night  circumstances  have  denied,  and  upon  the  fond  mother, 
whose 

— "  Maiden  life  is  rounded 

With  a  golden  wedding-ring," 

to  teach  their  son  a  proper  apprehension  of  the  love  of  the  Class 
under  whose  peculiar  guardianship  he  will  henceforth  be.     And 

"  When  we  all  come  up  to  College, 
Vigintennial  to  pass," 

may  he  be  found  matriculated  in  our  Alma  Mater.  To  the  boy 
himself  I  can  bequeath  no  more  precious  legacy  of  advice  than  that 
given  to  me  by  my  honored  and  venerable  pastor,*  when  first  a 
Freshman's  heart  beat  beneath  my  waistcoat.  In  his  ever-to-be- 
reraembered  words,  as  he  laid  his  hand  upon  my  head,  I  too  would 
say:  "My  sois",  be  thou  an  hoj^^oe  to  Yale  College,  and  let 
Yale  College  be  an  honoe  to  thee." 


The  cup  was  placed  in  tlie  hands  of  the  young  gen- 
tleman, who  eyed  it  curiously,  and  then  tasted  its  con- 
tents, to  show  his  appreciation  of  the  gift,  and  his 
good-will  to  the  givers.  Not  having  many  words  at 
command  to  express  his  thanks  for  it,  and  his  father 
being  absent,  he  delegated  Cyeus  Northeop  of  Xor- 

*  Rev.  Dr.  Hawes,  of  Hartford,  Ct. 


14  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

walk,  Ct.,  to  reply  for  him,  whicli  that  gentleman  did  in 
these  words : 

My  Classmates  : — For  this  gift,  so  beautiful  and  appropriate, 
which  you  have  presented  to  the  Class-boy,  I  return  you  sincere 
thanks — in  behalf  of  the  hoy  himself^  whose  emotions  are  alto- 
gether of  too  overpowering  a  nature  to  permit  him  adequately  to 
express  them ;  in  behalf  of  the  father,  ^Yho  is  necessarily  absent 
from  us  to-night,  but  whose  heart  is  with  us,  for  high  authority 
has  said,  that  "  where  the  treasure  is,  there  will  the  heart  be  also  ;" 
and  in  behalf  of  the  mother,  w^ho,  though  custom  denies  her  the 
privilege  of  speaking,  I  doubt  not,  silent  thanks  you  with  a  more 
telling  eloquence  than  any  words  of  mine.  And  you,  sir,  [to  H. 
C.  Pratt,]  I  thank  for  the  very  felicitous  and  complimentary  lan- 
guage with  which  you  have  presented  the  gift,  and  conveyed  to  us 
the  sentiments  of  the  Class. 

This  is  an  hour  of  thrilling  interest.  We  are  living  fast  to- 
night;  for  years  gone  and  years  to  come  are  all  condensed  in 
these  few  hours  we  spend  together.  And  this  boy,  the  represent- 
ative of  a  coming  generation,  tells  us  how  fast  we  are  drifting  on- 
ward and  outward  into  life,  and  how  close  the  coming  men  press 
upon  our  footsteps. 

On  this  most  interesting  occasion,  when  we  have  met  to  take 
up,  if  it  may  be,  the  broken  links  in  the  chain  of  friendship  and  of 
brotherhood  which  we  formed  under  such  memorable  circumstances 
three  years  ago,  on  yonder  green,  when  in  that  parting  hour,  with 
the  blissful  recollections  of  four  joyous  years  thronging  upon  us. 
and  the  dim,  misty  future  waiting  to  receive  us,  not  as  classmates, 
but  as  isolated  men,  the  streaming  eye  spoke  the  language  the 
tongue  failed  to  utter,  I  can  but  regret  that  he,  whose  heart  would 
have  glowed  with  paternal  pride  in  presenting  his  boy  to  the 
Class,  is  not  here  to  express,  in  his  own  eloquent  language,  the  full 
outgushings  of  a  father's  gratitude  and  joy.  I  can  but  regret  that 
this  boy  is  yet  too  young  to  understand  the  relations  he  sustains 
to  the  Class,  or  to  appreciate  the  priceless  worth  of  the  love  of 
these  warm  hearts  which  are  beating  around  me  to-night,  which, 
unasked  and  as  yet  unreciprocated,  is  all  for  hinn. 

Could  he  do  so,  he  would  tell  you  in  simple  and  unaffected  lan- 
guage how  much  he  thanks  you  for  your  gift,  how  tenaciously  he 
will  cling  to  it  through  life,  and  how  closely  he  will  bind  to  his 
heart  the  affections  of  his  father's  Class. 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  15 

I  give  you  these  assurances  of  gratitude  and  love  for  him,  and 
his  heart  in  after-years,  as  he  reads  the  record  of  my  imperfect 
and  faltering  sentences,  shall  ratify  these  assurances,  and  confirm 
the  contract  of  mutual  love  between  him  and  the  Class,  which  you 
ratify  to-night,  and  to  bind  which,  you  give  this  cup. 

It  is  true  this  gift  is  a  customary  one,  and  careless  tongues  may 
say  it  is  therefore  void  of  honor ;  that  there  is  no  credit  in  being 
horn  to  a  position,  in  being  merely  the  legal  heir  of  a  man.  I 
think  it  depends  very  much  upon  who  the  man  is,  whose  heir  you 
are  by  birth.  To  be  the  heir  of  some  men  is  indeed  no  honor. 
To  have  their  blood  flow  in  your  veins  is  a  disgrace.  But  to  be 
the  heir  of  other  men  is  a  life-long  glory,  which  needs  but  the 
crowning  act  of  an  honorable  life  to  be  full  and  consummated. 
And  so  there  may  be  classes  whose  boy  should  feel  no  pride  as  he 
displays  the  treasured  token  of  their  offered  guardianship,  just  as 
there  may  be  classes  that  should  feel  no  pride  in  showing  their 
l3oy,  especially  those  that  are  so  unfortunate  as  not  to  have  any. 

But  to  be  the  Class-boy  of  '57  is  an  honor ;  for  the  Class  of  '57 
is  an  earnest  Class.  It  never  does  a  meaningless  act.  When  it 
takes  the  Class-boy  and  puts  into  his  hand  the  silver  cup,  it  sends 
with  it  its  richest  blessings,  its  heartiest  good-will,  its  earnest  love, 
its  own  great  heart.  And  he  who  is  born  to  such  a  heritage,  to  go 
through  life  bearing  with  him  the  benedictions  and  the  blessings 
of  the  Class  of  '57,  is  born  to  no  ignoble  estate,  but  one  which 
kings  might  be  proud  o£ 

And  in  your  gift,  as  well  as  in  the  recipient,  there  is  an  eminent 
fitness  and  propriety. 

You  have  given  this  boy  a  cup^  the  token  in  all  ages  of  that  into 
which  are  gathered  the  joys  and  the  sorrows  of  life — a  silver  cup, 
to  denote  your  wish  that  his  rich  experiences  may  ever  be  em- 
braced in  outward  purity  and  beauty.  You  have  given  it  to  the 
first  boy,  that,  if  life  is  a  responsibility,  you  may  reward  the  little 
fellow  for  being  the  first  of  his  generation  to  show  a  readiness  to 
take  upon  himself  the  burdens  of  humanity — the  first  to  lift  his 
little  hand  on  the  ocean  of  life ;  or  if  life  is  a  joy,  that  you  may 
console  him — ^because  coming  first  to  it,  he  must,  in  the  order  of 
nature,  first  leave  it,  and  for  him  the  "Golden  Bowl"  be  first 
broken.  You  have  given  it  to  the  first  hoy  because,  I  suppose, 
you  thought  the  little  girls  could  take  care  of  themselves,  and 
that,  however  closely  you  might  bind  this  cup  to  the  boy,  and 
however  strongly  entail  it  in  your  conveyance,  in  due  season  the 


16  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

girls  would  be  sure  to  get  cup  and  boy  both.  Wonderful,  indeed, 
are  the  dispensations  of  life,  and  even  and  exact  justice  meets  us 
on  every  hand;  so  that  here,  what  seemed  at  first  an  unnatural 
and  invidious  distinction  between  the  first  boy  and  his  suc- 
cessors, between  the  boy  and  the  girls,  closely  viewed,  appears 
but  simple  justice  to  the  brave  little  man  before  us. 

It  was  a  subject  of  congratulation  to  the  sainted  Paul,  that  his 
youthful  charge,  Timothy,  had  been  placed  under  the  influence  of 
the  "earnest  faith  which  dwelt  first  in  his  grandmother  Lois,  and 
his  mother  Eunice."  I  think  the  Class  of  '57  has  equal  occasion 
for  congratulation;  and  that  our  young  friend  here  will  experience 
in  his  mother's  ministrations  of  love,  nothing  inferior  to  the  coun- 
sel of  the  excellent  Eunice  ;  while  listening,  as  he  must  have  done 
from  his  earliest  infancy,  to  the  voice  of  his  father's  Alma  Mater, 
summoning  her  sons  to  prayer  and  study,  though  {with  unspeak- 
able  gratitude  he  it  spoken  I)  at  less  unseasonable  hours  than  when 
we  were  under  her  nurturing  care,  will  experience,  in  his  future 
life,  influences  from  this  excellent  grandmother  quite  as  good  and 
as  potent  as  those  which  emanated  from  the  biblical  Lois.  So 
that,  as  Timothy  was  a  model  of  every  virtue,  of  faith  and  hope 
and  earnest  action,  and  as  faithful  training  never  fails  to  show  its 
proper  fruits  in  the  life  of  the  child,  I  unhesitatingly  promise  you 
that  this  boy  shall,  by  his  manliness  and  virtues,  prove  himself 
worthy  alike  of  the  Class  and  of  its  gift.  And  I  know  that  he  is 
too  much  of  a  gentleman  to  falsify  my  words  by  any  neglect  on 
his  part. 

My  young  friend,  [to  the  boy,]  I  have  expressed,  as  well  as  I 
know  how,  the  language  which,  methinks,  your  heart  would  utter 
could  you  look  beyond  this  gift  and  appreciate  the  spirit  of  these 
givers.  I  have  bat  one  word  more,  a  closing  benediction  on  your 
young  head.  May  this  cup,  presented  with  so  many  good  wishes, 
never  be  drained  to  the  dregs ;  may  it  always  be  full ;  and  so 
abundant  may  the  blessings  of  heaven  be  to  you,  that  all  through 
life  you  may  be  able  to  take  up  the  triumphant  and  grateful  ex- 
clamation  of  the  Psalmist :  "  My  cup  runneth  overP 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  17 

The  Class  then  sung  the  following 

SONG  OF  THE  SILVER  CUR 


Have  sped  along  on  rapid  wing, 
And  now  we  come  The  Boy  to  bring : 

Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 

Our  fellows  haven't  done  so  bad, 
For  one's  a  Tute,  and  one's  a  Shad, 
And  one's  a  proud  and  a  happy  Dad : 

Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 

We  give  with  joy  the  Silver  boon 
To  the  tiny  hands  of  the  "Jolly  June," 
The  boy  that  was  dorn  with  the  Silver  Spoon : 
Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 

The  blessed  boy's  of  wondrous  size. 

He  has  two  feet  and  his  father's  eyes, 

And  a  mouth  of  his  own,  but  he  never  cries  ; 

' '  Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. ' ' 

And  he's  going  to  hurry  to  be  a  man, 
And  come  to  College  as  soon  as  he  can, 
And  sing  a  song  on  this  same  plan : 

Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 

Old  Herc'les  sailed  in  a  golden  bowl, 
But  our  little  Cupid,  the  jolly  soul, 
In  the  Silver  Cup  shall  reach  the  goal : 

Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel, 

This  cup  shall  be  as  a  Holy  Grail, 

A  talisman  when  foes  assail, 

A  pledge  of  love  that  shall  never  fail : 

Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel. 

And  here's  a  health  to  the  lucky  lad, 
And  a  hearty  health  to  the  lucky  Dad, 
And  a  closing  health  to  all  who  are  glad  : 

Discumbibiloloboo-slow-reel, 

After  listening  to  more  cheers,  three  for  the  Boy,  and 
three  for  John  Milton  Holmes,  who  wrote  the  song, 
the  greater  part  of  the  company  of  visitors  withdrew, 

2 


18  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

The  first  regular  toast  was  tlieii  announced,  "  Alma 
Mater,"  to  whicli  Augustus  Hopkins  Strong  of  Ko- 
ch ester,  N.  Y.,  replied  as  follows : 

My  Classmates  : — I  can  scarcely  imagine  why  I  am  called  upon 
to  respond  to  a  toast  like  this ;  there  are  many  whose  scholarly 
tastes  and  literary  attainments  qualify  them  to  represent  far  better 
the  kind  mother  of  us  all.  Our  venerable  classmates  who  have 
already  assumed  the  Tutorial  purple  might  well  have  answered 
for  our  Alma  Mater.  Yet,  on  one  account,  at  least,  I  congratulate 
you  on  your  selection,  for  I  can  say,  with  regard  to  my  speech,  as 
the  brilliant  writer  of  Eothen  assures  his  readers  in  the  preface, 
that  from  all  valuable  statistics,  all  learned  dissertations,  all  useful 
information,  and  all  moral  and  religious  reflections,  the  work  will 
be  thoroughly  free. 

Perhaps,  after  all,  I  have  a  semblance  of  right  to  answer  to  this 
first  toast,  because,  of  us  all,  I  have  come  furthest  to  attend  our 
Class-meeting.  Since  we  last  shook  hands  and  said  our  sad  fare- 
wells, we  have  wandered  on  both  sides  of  the  globe,  and  inter- 
vening oceans  have  rolled  between  us ;  but  you  can  go  no  where 
without  meeting  men  from  Yale.  I  remember  well  a  gloomy  day 
in  London,  when  I  walked  after  dinner  in  the  Strand  ;  the  dingy, 
smoky  piles  of  brick  frowned  through  the  fog  upon  the  rush  and 
roar  of  the  great  thoroughfare,  as  if  indignant  that  their  century- 
sleep  was  thus  disturbed.  I  walked  disconsolate  and  oppressed 
with  the  loneliness  a  stranger  feels  in  London,  till  out  of  the  fog- 
rose  upon  the  horizon  the  round  and  jolly  face  of  Gus.  Baied. 
The  gloom  was  gone — for  an  hour  London  was  a  terrestrial 
paradise. 

In  the  ^gean  sea,  and  at  the  port  of  Syra,  I  rested  for  a  day 
before  I  turned  my  face  finally  towards  home  and  the  west,  when 
through  the  clearness  of  a  Gr  dan  air  I  saw  the  boat  from  Con- 
stantinople steaming  in  from  the  isles  of  the  Archipelago.  I 
boarded  the  steamer  to  search  for  friends,  and  lo !  there  stood 
before  me  one  whose  absence  we  all  regret  to-night,  John  Day, 
fresh  from  the  Golden  Horn,  and  bound  for  Athens. 

At  my  hotel  in  Paris  I  found  one  day  a  card  for  me,  inscribed, 
"  De.  S.  D.  DoAK ;"  and  only  by  unpardonable  ignorance  of  his 
whereabouts  did  I  miss  a  sight  of  the  magnificent  moustache  of 
our  United  States  Vice-Consul,  James  B.  Cone.   ^ 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  19 

And  last  of  all,  by  the  misty  moonlight  that  streamed  through 
the  broken  arches  of  the  Coliseum,  I  saw  the  stalwart  form  and 
manly  face  of  Sam.  Scoville,  and  many  a  night  we  sang  m  our 
rooms  on  the  third  floor  of  an  old  Roman  palace,  the  song : 

"Alma  Mater!  Alma  Mater  I  Heaven's  blessing  attend  her!" 

until  y/e  interpreted  every  knock  on  the  door  as  the  summons  of  a 
Papal  gendarme  to  preserve  proper  order.  The  British  drum-beat 
is  heard  all  round  the  world,  hut  the  song  "Alma  Mater!  Alma 
Mater  I"  has  been  sung  where  British  soldiers  never  set  foot ;  yes, 
Avider  than  the  rule  of  Britain  or  of  Rome  is  the  dominion  of  our 
Mother  Yale  ! 

I  (had  an  objection  to  coming  up  to  this  gathering.  I  scarcely 
felt  that  I  had  a  right  to  return  as  an  alumnus  of  the  College  with- 
out having  done  something  in  the  world,  without  bringing  from 
life  some  trophy  to  show  for  all  that  she  has  given  us.  The  an- 
cients brought  back  the  spoils  of  victory  from  hard-contested  fights 
and  bloody  wars,  and  laid  them  on  the  altar  of  their  tutelar  divin- 
ity. When  I  looked  upon  the  white  heads  of  the  alumni  this 
morning,  and  saw  them  thronging  in  to  the  temple  of  their  old 
foster-mother,  to  lay  on  her  altar  the  spoils  of  hard-fought  lives, 
trophies  gained  in  every  department  of  human  activity,  many  of 
them  glorious  monuments  of  patient  labor  and  endurance,  I  asked 
myself  what  right  I  had  to  appear  among  such  an  array.  We 
have  nothing  yet  to  bring !  Let  me  make  my  apologies  to  those 
who  do  bring  wives  and  babies.  Venerable  men !  you  seem  to 
have  come  down  from  a  former  generation.  Most  of  us  have  no 
trophies  like  yours,  and  can  only  console  ourselves  with  the  senti- 
ment which  a  certain  theological  professor  uttered  to  his  class : 
"  Gentlemen,  it  is  far  better  for  a  young  clergyman  to  accumulate  a 
stack  of  books  than  a  stack  of  babies."  No  !  most  of  us  have  no- 
thing to  bring  as  an  offering.  There  is  but  one  consolation  for 
us  :  we  are  still  undergraduates  ;  w^e  have  only  reached  the  end  of 
the  second  stage  of  our  preparatory  course.  The  first  was  the 
monastic  life  of  the  college ;  we  ended  it  three  years  ago.  The 
second,  that  is  just  past,  has  been  a  wider,  broader  life  ;  while  it 
has  given  us  wider  sw^eep  of  thought,  and  initiated  us  into  the 
mysteries  of  the  work  to  which  life  is  to  be  devoted,  it  has  given 
us  also  freer  range  of  sympathy,  larger  acquaintance  with  men. 
To-night  is  our  real  Commencement ;  it  is  the  last  of  past  pre- 
paration, the  end  of  wandering  in  the  desert;  it  is  the  first  day  of 


20  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

the  future,  the  day  on  which  we  cross  the  boundary  river  and 
enter  the  promised  land,  the  good  land  and  large  which  is  to  be 
hereafter  our  possession  and  our  home.  Henceforth  we  belong  to 
society.  Three  years  ago  we  reached  the  steps  of  the  temple  ;  to- 
night are  thrown  wide  open  the  great  bronze  doors  through  which 
we  pass  into  the  illimitable  future. 

We  stand  in  a  position  to-night  from  which  we  are  able  to  see, 
better  than  ever  before,  all  that  was  good  in  the  past.  We  never 
realized  the  richness  of  the  gifts  our  Alma  Mater  put  into  our 
bands  while  we  were  here.  It  is  with  all  the  real  happiness  of  life 
as  it  is  with  the  delights  of  travel — they  exist  in  full  23erfection 
only  in  anticipation  and  retrospection.  A  golden  halo  encircles 
all  our  dreams  of  the  future,  like  the  ring  of  light  about  the  heads 
of  the  Madonnas.  Our  hopes  are  realized,  but  the  halo  has  van- 
ished. Life  is  indeed  a  series  of  disenchantments ;  but  there  is 
this  comfort,  when  the  delight  is  once  past^  the  halo  comes  back 
again.  Our  college  life  seemed  sometimes  a  thin  and  shallow 
stream  w^hile  we  were  passing  through  it.  How  like  a  smooth, 
broad-flowing  river,  fringed  with  forests  and  flowers,  does  it  seem 
to  us  to-night ! 

Separation,  too,  is  a  good  thing.  We  never  know  the  happiness 
of  association,  or  the  depth  and  reality  of  our  friendships,  till  we 
part  and  live  for  a  time  alone.  Timothy  Titcomb  advises  all  young- 
married  people  to  separate  for  a  month  during  the  first  year,  that 
they  may  learn  to  realize  the  happiness  or  sorrow  of  their  situation 
by  the  contrast  which  separation  for  a  time  brings  with  it.  I  do 
not  presume  to  lay  down  the  law  on  this  subject  to  any  of  the 
twenty-two  husbands  and  fathers  of  families  whom  I  see  sitting 
mournfully  about  the  table  at  this  late  hour.  I  only  refer  to  this 
eminent  authority  to  establish  the  fact  that  love  grows  by  absence. 
We  know  friends  thoroughly,  we  know  the  strength  of  our  own 
love  for  them,  only  after  we  have  separated.  This  has  been  one 
of  the  uses  of  separation  to  us.  Who  does  not  remember  the  feel- 
ing of  isolation  that  came  over  us  many  times  during  that  first  year 
after  graduation,  when  we  seemed  out  at  sea,  where  all  ordinary 
landmarks  had  sunk  beneath  the  waves  ?  The  solid  earth  was 
gone,  on  which  we  used  to  tread ;  the  very  stars  had  changed,  and 
RQW  constellations  rose  before  us.  From  wandering  over  the  face 
of  the  whole  earth,  we  come  again  at  last  together.  We  have 
been  gazing  earnestly  for  a  long  time  toward  the  horizon,  eagerly 
longing  to  catch  a  glimpse  of  tlie  well-known  shore.     What  a  thrill 


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goes  through  one  as  the  cry  comes  from  the  mast-head,  "Land 
ho!"  How  grand  seem  the  low  hills  across  the  waves,  and  how 
beautiful  the  waving  grass  of  the  pleasant  fields  !  more  grand  and 
more  beautiful  because  the  hills  and  the  fields  are  your  country 
and  your  home.  So  we  come  back  to  I^ew-Haven  and  to  Yale. 
I  do  not  envy  him  who  does  not  love  them  both  to-day  better 
than  on  any  day  of  all  his  life  before.  What  good  and  scholarly 
men  our  Professors  were  !  How  reverend  those  who  have  passed 
away !  Upon  the  past  of  our  College  life  the  halo  has  come  back, 
and  settled  down  once  more  and  forever. 

There  were  two  good  things  the  College  did  for  us,  aside  from 
the  ordinary  benefits  of  study  and  discipline.  One  w^as  that  it 
widened  our  sympathies.  It  is  one  of  the  great  characteristics  of 
true  manhood,  that  its  sympathies  are  wide  and  growing.  We 
gathered  together  from  every  part  of  the  Confederacy  ;  w^e  united 
the  whole  broad  country  by  the  bond  of  class-fellowship.  I  am 
thankful  that  I  ever  was  a  member  of  a  College  and  a  Class  that 
from  its  composition  could  not  cherish  local  or  sectional  prejudices, 
whose  sympathies  went  abroad  over  the  whole  land.  I  can  say  to 
myself:  Ohio  is  mine,  and  Louisiana  is  mine,  Georgia,  and  Cali- 
fornia, and  Massachusetts,  all  are  mine,  because  I  have  a  friend 
in  every  one,  and  thereby  become  a  citizen  of  the  whole  country, 
and  not  only  of  a  single  State.  The  three  years  of  our  absence 
from  one  another  have  widened  yet  more  our  sympathies.  He  is  a 
poor  specimen  of  humanity  who  is  not  drawn  out  of  himself,  and 
made  less  selfish  and  more  sympathizing  by  his  contact  with  life 
from  year  to  year.  Avoid  the  man  who  has  traveled,  yet  has 
found  nothing  to  admire,  who  has  taken  every  thing  he  has  learned 
only  as  a  stone  to  build  into  the  enormous  edifice  of  his  own  self- 
conceit.  Avoid  that  man,  if  you  avoid  any  body,  for  he  has  no 
true  manliness — the  manliness  that  consists  in  broad,  and  human, 
and  growing  sympathies.  I  was  sure,  w^hen  I  felt  the  warm  grasp 
of  the  hands  of  my  classmates  this  morning,  that  we  had  not  for- 
gotten in  these  last  years  the  lesson  we  learned  when  we  were 
Freshmen  of  our  Alma  Mater. 

One  other  thing  we  learned  here  :  the  sentiment  of  class  dignity 
and  responsibility.  If  there  was  any  thing  in  our  Class  which  dis- 
tinguished it  from  every  other  we  have  known — and  I  have  thought 
frequently  about  it — it  was  this:  the  common  feeling  of  responsi- 
bility in  sustaining  the  dignity  and  respectability  of  the  Class. 
Thus,  while  our  class  spirit  was  deep  and  strong,  it  had  always  a 


22  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

good  and  not  a  bad  influence  upon  ns.  The  Class  was  above 
meanness,  above  foolish  acting,  above  the  common  tricks  and 
deceptions  and  dissipations  of  college  life  ;  and  this,  I  am  proud  to 
say,  is  the  estimate  at  which  we  are  held  by  those  w^ho,  though 
they  judge  officially,  can  yet  judge  fairly.  And  when  I  come  back 
to  Yale  again,  there  'is  something  perceptible  in  the  faces  of  my 
fellows  which  tells  me  that  this  sense  of  manly  responsibility  has 
only  grown  with  the  passing  of  the  years,  that  we  are  more  strong 
and  determined  and  manly  for  our  extended  acquaintance  with 
the  world. 

With  all  the  good,  we  can  remember,  also,  the  bad  things  in 
our  college  course.  If  there  were  jealousies  or  ill  feelings,  w^e  are 
ready  to  renounce  them  all  to-night — they  have  been  renounced 
long  since.  And  with  regard  to  the  wrongs  and  mistakes  we 
committed — and  who  of  us  w^as  free  from  these  ? — they  are  past. 
l!^ever  a  time  like  this  to  say :  such  things  as  these  shall  be  all 
past.  A  truer  life  shall  be  ours  for  the  sad  things  as  well  as  the 
glad  things  which  the  past  has  hidden  in  its  bosom. 

Life  seems  to  us  to-night  far  more  colossal  and  far  more  inex- 
orable than  when  we  stood  here  three  years  ago.  "  The  thoughts 
of  men  are  widened  with  the  process  of  the  suns."  To-morrow 
we  go  forth  into  an  untried  future.  Life  comes  to  each  one  of  us 
as  the  grim  Sphynx  came  to  (Edipus,  and  she  proposes  her  riddle 
to  every  one.  She  is  remorseless,  pitiless.  Answer  rightly,  or  she 
tramples  you  under  foot  and  tears  you  with  her  iron  claws.  Who 
can  answer  the  riddle  of  Life  ?  There  is  but  one  word  that  solves 
it,  and  that  is  "Faith  !"  ISTot  only  the  unwavering  courage,  the 
dauntless  self-reliance,  the  resolute,  irresistible  will,  but  above  all, 
and  penetrating  all,  that  of  which  a  mightier  one  than  we  has 
spoken  :  "  This  is  the  victory  that  overcometh  the  world,  even  our 
Faith?'' 

But  I  have  been  led  to  moralizing  more  than  I  intended.  Par- 
don it,  if  for  no  other  reason,  that  it  is  so  intimately  connected 
with  what  we  owe  our  Alma  Mater.  We  are  glad  to  come  once 
more  to  her  sacred  shrine.  We  are  glad  to  meet  each  other 
again.  We  can  say  of  this  meeting  nearly  what  the  New-England 
poet  said  on  another,  though  not  a  similar,  occasion  : 

"  But  we  are  here,  and  having  a  good  time 
With  our  dull  wit,  poor  speeches  and  bad  rhyme  ; 
And  when  we  get  to  our  respective  fprospectivej  houses, 
We  11  call  the  lad  that  wears  the  longest  'trowsers,' 


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And  say :  '  My  son,  the  class  have  met  to-daj', 
And  shaken  hands  in  the  old-fashioned  way  ; 
But  at  the  table  your  respected  dad 
Enjoyed  the  tallest  time  he  ever  had.'  " 

We  next  sung  the  following  song  by  Levi  Holbeook  : 

■• 

Y  A  L  E  N  S  I  A. 

Air—"  Marseillaise."' 

Yalensise  ad  laudem,  fratres, 

Nos  congregati  hodie. 
Annorum  umbrae  sepultorum 
Nos  vocant  se  revisere, 
Quae  quatuor  elysiae. 

Adducti  aurearum  ramo 
Memoriarum  venimus, 
Lsetorum  pedum  gradibus 
Ut  olim  cantu  modulato. 
lo !  Yalensia  !  esto  perpetua  ! 
Pro  alm^  matre  vivemus ;  pro  te,  Yalensia  ! 

Salvete !  atria  antiqua, 

Dierum  fons  felicium ! 
Tu,  hortus  puellarum  ridens. 
In  urbe  rus  umbriferum, 
Ulmorum  urbs  undantium ! 

Undseque,  qua  nos,  cymbas  passi 
Nereidum  amplexibus 
Dormire,  suis  vocibus 
^ternis  cantum  modulati. 
lo  !  Yalensia  !  esto  perpetua ! 
Pro  alma  matre  vivemus  ;  pro  te,  Yalensia ! 

His  aris,  quibus  multi  prius, 

Nos  et  excelsum  studium 
Accendimus ;  ardentes  deinde 
Egrediemur  iterum, 
Ausuri  vitae  praelium. 

Nunc,  academiam  laudantes. 
Ad  astra  melos  resonum 
Fundamus,  pulsu  cordium 
Gratorum  cantum  modulantes. 
lo  !  Yalensia  !  esto  perpetua  !  | 

Pro  alma  matre  vivemus ;  pro  te,  Yalensia  ! 


24  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

After  Alma  Mater  and  Holbrook  had  been  saluted 
with  enthusiastic  cheers,  the  President  gave  out  the  sec- 
ond toast,  "The  CLass  of  '57."  Hitherto  the  Musical 
Committee  had  obeyed  the  injunction  to  save  their 
voices  for  the  singing,  but  when  the  name  of  their  own 
Class  .was  called,  even  they  forgot  themselves,  and  join- 
ed in  the  shouts  that  seemed  to  shake  the  very  founda- 
tions of  the  building. 

John  Milton  Holmes  replied  in  his  usual  fascinating 
and  entertaining  style. 

The  following  report  of  his  speech  is  imperfect, 
though,  thanks  to  the  recent  improvements  in  parachre- 
matic  and  metachronal  electric  reporting,  the  distin- 
guished speaker  admits  that  his  speech  was,  "  with 
many  gaps  and  changes,  in  substance  as  follows  :" 

THE     CLASS    OF    '57. 

My  Classmates  : — You  may  be  aware  that,  by  a  wise  ordinance 
of  the  powers  that  be  at  Andover,  a  text  is  a  luxury  far  above  the 
reach  of  any  Junior  or  Middler.  If  any  such  unHcensed  person 
desires  to  "  wag  his  pow  in  a  pulpit,"  his  sermon  must  resemble 
the  barrel  which  the  ingenious  cooper  was  requested  to  fabricate 
out  of  an  old  bung-hole.  To-night,  however,  I  am  not  only  per- 
mitted to  take  a  text,  but  one  is  furnished  ready  to  my  hand ;  a 
text  glowing  with  glad  meaning ;  a  text  concerning  which  no  doc- 
tors will  disagree  ;  by  the  side  of  which  may  lie  down  the  old 
Adam  of  Princeton  with  the  young  America  of  Harvard  divinity ; 
the  textus  receptus  of  all  the  great  and  good  men  of  every  age  and 
race  who  have  helped  to  compose  the  Class  of  '57. 

Leaving  out  of  the  question  that  profound  theory  of  Mr.  Rory 
O'More,  by  which  all  the  luck  belongs  to  the  odd  numbers,  it 
follows  c^jl9r^o^^,  from  the  natural,  inevitable  progress  of  the  human 
race,  that  the  Class  of  '57  must  have  surpassed  all  its  predeces- 
sors in  every  element  of  physical,  moral,  and  intellectual  greatness, 
just  as  it  did  in  mere  numerical  superiority.  Especially  could  we 
look  down  from  the  hights  of  our  glory  upon  that  pitiful  jumble 
of  newly  hatched  Sophomores,  whom  we  flogged  vi  et  armis^pug- 
nis  et  calcihus^  terra  raarique^  from  one  equinox  to  the  other,  but 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  25 

who  never  possessed  inductive  faculty  enough  to  know  when  they 
were  beaten. 

At  an  agricultural  fair  down  East  a  shrewd  farmer  was  ques- 
tioned by  a  Yankee  as  to  the  way  in  which  he  had  raised  a  certain 
crop  of  cranberries —  a  very  large  one,  some  hundred  bushels  to 
the  acre.  "  Oh  !  brains  !"  replies  the  other.  "  N'othing  but 
brains."  "  Brains !"  exclaims  the  Yankee.  "  Whew  !  Where  in 
time  d' ye  git  brains  enough  to  kiver  a  cranberry  marsh?" 

And  so,  gentlemen,  when  I  think  of  this  great  Class  of  '57, 
reaping  honors  and  victories  from  foot-ball  and  boat-race  —  never 
rushed  out  and  never  smoked  out — flagellating  and  excoriating  all 
the  other  Classes  in  College,  and  then  carrying  confusion  and  terror 
into  the  Engineering  department,  I  ask  in  profound  astonishment? 
where  in  time  they  could  get  brains  enough  to  do  it  ?  I  remember 
that  one  distinguished  member  of  the  Class — whom  I  now  see  before 
me — made  the  curious  discovery  thsit  phosphorus  produces  brain  ; 
that  the  animal  commonly  called  the  oyster  secretes  phosphorus ;  and 
thirdly,  that  the  human  epigastrium  may  become  a  connecting  me- 
dium between  the  two.  "  This,  then,"  he  would  say,  "is the  meat 
on  which  we  grew  so  strong."  But  there  is  another  theory  pro- 
founder  than  this  bivalvular  hypothesis,  and  which  I  shall  designate 
as  the  tubercular.  A  philosopher  was,  not  long  since,  trying  to 
sell  an  Andover  Professor  a  load  of  potatoes.  He  asked  more  than 
was  expected.  "  How  is  this  ?"  said  the  Prof.  To  which  the  phi- 
losopher gave  the  keen  and  conclusive  answer :  "  There's  a  differ- 
ence in  Haters .-'"     And  so,  when  we  sing, 

"  Around  the  walls  Yalensian,  the  fleeting  years  shall  flow, 
But  never  bring  the  equal  here  of  Fifty-seven  0  !" 

if  any  envious  skeptic  should  ask  me  whether  that  is  scientific 
truth,  or  only  poetic  license — in  the  first  place,  I  would  look  at 
him  ;  in  the  second  place,  I  would  theologically  "  counter  his  nob ;" 
and  finally,  I  would  reply  :  "  There'^s  a  difference  in  Haters  .^" 

Why  did  Barrows  stand  at  the  head  of  the  stairs,  like  Codes  at 
the  Bridge,  and  demolish  the  caitifls  who  came  to  fumigate  him  ? 
"  There's  a  difference  in  Haters  !^'> 

Why  on  yonder  green  did  we  sweep  away  the  Sophomores  with 
the  besom  of  destruction,  and  send  them  home  to  rub  their  shins 
in  desolation  ?     "  There'' s  a  difference  in  Haters  .^" 

Why,  when  the  Juniors  tried  to  rush  us  from  the  chapel,  did 
they  fizzle  nine  pews  from  the  door  ?  "  Therms  a  differeyice  in 
Haters  /" 


26  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

Why,  in  the  literary  contests  in  which  our  men  had  the  privilege 
of  encountering  the  upper  Classes,  did  '57  beat  the  best  of  them? 
"  There' 8  a  difference  in  Haters  /" 

Why  is  '57  here  to-night  in  such  unprecedented  numbers,  with 
such  irrepressible  enthusiasm,  bringing  here  promptly  and  fitly, 
instead  of  a  Sophomoric  specimen  of  feminine  insignificance,  a 
chubby,  rosy  Boy  to  bear  the  banner  of  the  Class  into  futurity? 
All  we  can  say  is  :  "  There'' s  a  dfferenee  in  Haters  /"  We  can  no 
more  explain  it  than  we  can  explain  the  superiority  of  oysters  over 
clams.     "  There's  a  difference  in  Haters .'" 

The  Class  of  '57  !  There  is  music  in  that.  There  is  magic  in  it. 
As  great  volumes  of  hei^t  and  light  are  compressed  into  a  bit  of 
carbon — as  a  whole  orchard  of  roses  maybe  concentrated  into  one 
little  bottle  of  odor — even  so  is  the  record  of  the  four  most  event- 
ful years  of  our  lives,  its  joys  and  its  sorrows  ;  its  anxieties  and  its 
aspirations  ;  its  studies  and  amusements  ;  its  warnings,  its  excuses, 
its  scrapes,  its  jokes,  its  songs,  its  suppers ;  its  skinning  and  fiz- 
zling and  flunking  ;  its  initiations  and  pow-wows  and  jubilees  ;  its 
elections  and  electioneerings  ;  its  exhibitions  and  commencements 
and  vacations  ;  its  presentations,  its  option als,  its  biennials  ;  its 
sermons,  its  lectures,  its  prayer-meetings ;  its  Berkleians  and  Ban- 
ners and  Bangers ;  its  Langdonics,  its  wicket  and  cricket ;  its  Beet- 
hoven and  Tyrolea  ;  its  Alida  and  Rowena  and  IsTautilus  ;  its 
Shanghai  and  its  Woodcock ;  its  Atheneum  and  Lyceum ;  its 
Beothees  and  its  Lixonia;  the  first  gathering  in  that  strange 
recitation-room,  with  an  unknown  teacher  and  an  unknown  lesson 
in  the  preface  of  Livy  ;  the  last  sad  circle  sobbing  behind  ISTorth 
College  ;  a  hundred  brothers,  present  and  absent,  living  and  dead, 
but  all  linked  together,  heart  to  heart,  by  love  and  sympathy  and 
everlasting  memories — all  this  and  more  than  this  is  clasped  within 
the  rim  of  those  five  golden  words — "  The  Class  of  Fifty-seven  !" 

It  is  a  liost  of  associations  such  as  these,  treasured  up  in  our 
most  priceless  thoughts,  which  draws  us  together  to-night  as  by  a 
great  magnet  from  the  four  corners  of  the  land.  It  is  not  for  the 
pleasant  landscape  alone,  glorious  though  it  be,  by  moonlight  and 
starlight,  with  Gaudeamus  echoing  through  the  listening  elms ;  it 
is  not  for  the  old  buildings,  venerable  though  they  are,  and  quick- 
ened as  they  are  by  the  sacred  presence  of  generations  of  noble 
men  who  studied  here,  and  who  still  live  here  by  their  inspiration ; 
it  is  not  even  for  the  Professors  alone  —  much  as  we  esteem  them 
and  revere  them — that  wg  have  gathered  around  this  festal  board 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  27 

after  an  absence  of  three  years.  Oh !  no.  We  are  here  to-night 
to  see  one  another.  We  have  come  to  greet  one  man  who  was  m 
our  Division  and  another  man  that  was  in  our  Society.  This  man 
boarded  with  us,  and  that  man  always  sat  by  our  side  in  chapel. 
This  is  the  man  that  took  such  good  care  of«us  when  we  were  sick. 
That  is  the  man  with  whom  we  studied  and  took  such  pleasant 
v/alks  to  East  Rock  and  Judges'  Cave.  Here  is  one  that  we  ad- 
mired for  his  great  talents,  and  one  whom  we  revered  for  his  pure 
Christian  character.  This  one,  with  his  contagious  fun,  always  had 
a  mortgage  on  our  laughing  apparatus.  ISTot  far  away  is  the  bosom 
friend  to  whom  we  confided  all  our  loves  and  hopes  and  disappoint- 
ments, and  with  whom  in  lofty  chat  we  built  up  pantisocracies  and 
millenniums  and  castles  in  the  air. 

We  have  come  here  to  plunge  once  again  into  the  fountain  of 
youth  ;  to  live  over  again  in  a  few  hours  the  life  of  as  many  years  ; 
to  relate  our  fortunes  since  we  separated ;  to  rejoice  with  those 
who  have  rejoiced,  and  weep  with  those  who  have  wept ;  to  heal 
old  jealousies  and  estrangements  as  we  draw  the  Class  bands 
tighter  around  our  silver  cup ;  to  gain  from  our  meeting  strength 
and  encouragement,  as  you  have  seen  a  bird — a  scarlet  tanager— - 
dip  its  wings  into  the  shady,  rippling  brook,  not  only,  for  present 
fun  and  refreshment,  but  that  in  the  morning  it  may  be  plumed 
for  an  earlier  and  a  higher  flight. 

E"ew  friends  may  come,  but  they  shall  not  drive  out  the  old  ones. 
We  will  sit  closer  together.  We  will  make  a  place  for  all  the  new 
kindred  that  God  may  grant  us.  Our  hearts  shall  be  like  heaven— 
tlie  more  angels,  the  more  room.     Therefore, 

"  Happy  are  we  to-night,  boys, 
Happy,  happy  are  we  !" 

W^hen  I  say  boys,  I  mean  boys,  with  full  hearts  inspired  by  those 
good  old  times,  which,  be  they  what  they  may, 

"  Are  yet  the  master-light  of  all  our  seeing, 
The  fountain-light  of  all  our  day." 

To-morrow  morning  will  come,  and  our  bodies  will  be  weary, 
but  our  spirits  strong.  When  this  evening  shall  have  faded  into 
the  light  of  common  day,  then,  boys,  you  may  become  Shad-eater 
or  Tutor  or  Saw-bones  or  Theologaster.  But  as  for  this  Hall  of 
the  Silver  Cup,  I  say  of  it  as  one  of  our  number  said  of  the  Eng- 
lishman's castle :  "  The  winds  of  heaven  may  whistle  around  it, 
but  the  King  can  not — he  dare  not." 


28  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

After  the  enjoyment  of  the  Class-meeting,  and  another  day  to- 
gether, we  will  go  away,  not  grieving  over  the  parting,  not  expect- 
ing that  all  of  us  will  meet  again  on  earth,  but  thanking  God  that 
we  have  lived  to  see  this  day.  Let  us  go  gladdened  by  a  new-born 
love ;  stimulated  by  tke  experience  of  those  here  present  who  have 
won  any  honorable  success ;  nerved  by  the  thought  that  as  we 
work  our  work,  and  say  our  say,  and  "  give  the  world  a  jog  heaven- 
ward," a  hundred  tongues  will  be  eloquent  to  praise  us,  a  hundred 
right  hands  will  be  strong  to  strike  for  us,  that  all  these  Avarm 
hearts  will  be  beating  pulse  and  pulse  with  ours,  as  steady  as  the 
stars. 

So  shall  we  fulfill  the  kind  words  of  President  Woolsey  at  the 
collation  on  our  Commencement  Day — words  half  a  wish  and  half 
a  prophecy:  "The  Class  of  '57  :  Our  hopes  and  not  our  fears  go 
with  them." 

We  then  sung  a  song  by  George  Pkatt  : 

FIFTY-SEVBN    0! 

Air — "  Benny  Havens  0  P^ 

Three  years  have  passed,  my  brothers,  and  we  together  meet ; 
With  welcome  warm  and  hearty  cheer  our  leaping  pulses  beat ; 
For  time  can  only  deepen  the  fresh  and  fervent  glow 
That  warms  our  hearts  to  hear  the  name  of  Fifty-seven  0  ! 
Chorus. — Of  Fifty-seven  0,  etc. 

Then  welcome  all,  thrice  welcome,  and  here's  the  hearty  hand, 
Renewing  with  its  friendly  clasp  the  union  of  our  band  ; 
The  busy  years  have  vanished,  with  all  their  fitful  flow, 
And  here  we  stand  the  mighty  band  of  Fifty-seven  0  ! 
Chorus. — Of  Fifty-seven  0,  etc. 

And  let  us  pledge  the  absent :  right  happy  may  they  be, 
Where'er  they  stray  this  festive  day  on  land  or  on  the  sea ; 
Nor  let  those  be  forgotten  whose  still  lips  lying  low, 
No  more  can  frame  the  well-loved  name  of  Fifty-seven  0  ! 
Chorus. — Of  Fifty-seven  0,  etc. 

Now,  brothers,  make  confession,  and  tell  your  three  years'  talc  : 
llow  goes  the  voyage  of  your  life?  with  slack  or  flowing  sail  ? 
And  does  the  wishcd-for  haven,  still  near  and  nearer  grow, 
While  floats  in  light  the  banner  bright  of  Fifty-seven  0  ? 
Chorus. — Of  Fifty-seven  0.,  etc. 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  29 

From  all  our  tongues  the  answer  is  evermore  the  same : 
The  flag  of  Fifty-sev'n  leads  on  to  fortune  and  to  fame. 
We've  sweethearts,  wives,  and  children,  the  best  the  world  can  show, 
And  hearts  that  hope  and  heads  that  work  in  Fifty-seven  0  ! 
Chorus. — In  Fifty-seven  0,  etc. 

Let  all  the  world  take  warning,  we're  coming  on  the  stage  ; 
Our  doctors,  lawyers,  ministers,  are  bound  to  stir  the  age ; 
Hard  times  will  quickly  vanish,  the  far  millennium  glow, 
And  all  be  right  beneath  the  reign  of  Fifty-seven  0 ! 
Chorus. — Of  Fifty -seven  0,  etc. 

Then  here's  three  cheers,  my  brothers,  for  good  old  Mother  Yale ; 
The  cruse  of  lore  she  gave  to  us  we  hope  may  never  fail, 
But  three  tim.es  three  for  knowledge,  all  College  could  not  show, 
Of  loyal,  royal  fellowship  in  Fifty-seven  0 ! 
Chorus. — In  Fifty- seven  0,  etc. 

After  three  clieers  "  for  the  author  of  that  soDg,"  the 
President  announced  the  third  regular  toast,  ''  The 
Wives  of  '5Y  ;"  which  was  replied  to  by  Rev.  Augustus 
Field  Beard,  of  Portland,  Maine,  as  follows : 

Me.  Peesident  : — [N'ever  did  the  first  husband,  when  he  heard 
the  fatal  trespass  done  by  Eve,  stand  more 

"  Astonished  and  amazed,  while  horror  chill 
Ran  through  his  veins,  and  all  his  joints  relaxed," 

than  did  I  when  it  was  first  demonstrated  to  me  that  the  fond  an- 
ticipations with  which  I  had  looked  forward  to  this  meeting  were 
to  be  so  suddenly  nipped  in  the  bud. 

Being  a  bachelor,  unfettered  and  free,  it  was  my  religious  pur- 
pose, in  this  delightful  and  untrammeled  position,  to  guard  myself 
as  becometh  the  cloth,  and  above  all  things  not  to  be  found  talking 
about  the  wives  of  other  men.  Behold,  then,  the  vanity  of  human 
resolutions !  That  m-an  on  whom  this  duty  should  have  fallen,  the 
favorite  of  the  beauty  of  this  city  of  the  beautiful  —  who  would 
have  been  able  to  have  given  us  some  knowledge  of  so  important 
a  subject,  by  virtue  of  a  vivid  imagination  and  no  slight  number  of 
experiences  in  what  "  might  have  been,"  has  by  another  broken 
engagement  caused  this  duty  to  devolve  on  one  who,  innocently 


■80  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

ignorant  of  this  peculiar  institution,  must  discourse  on  a  subject  at 
once  strange  and  mysterious. 

In  all  the  frenzy  consequent  upon  this  sudden  notification,  and 
in  despair  of  being  able  to  even  contemplate  this  to  me  unknown 
phase  of  human  existence,  I  turned  with  an  energetic  howl  upon 
the  man  who  had  brought  upon  me  the  performance  of  a  duty, 
riot  unlovely  in  itself,  but  to  an  inexperienced  man  very  difficult  in 
all  its  ramifications.  I  demanded-  the  fulfillment  of  his  obligation 
npon  penalty  of  a  castigation  that  would  probably  tell  fearfully  in 
its  immediate  results,  I  hinted  darkly  of  several  broken  limbs  and 
of  an  unsightly  countenance.  He  met  me  more  in  sorrow  than  in 
anger.  Trouble  was  in  his  eye  and  grief  upon  his  tongue  as  he 
told  me  how  it  was  that  once,  in  the  fire  of  youth  and  romance, 
hope  had  whispered  to  him 

It  was  the  old  story.  There  was  no  reasoning  with  a  man  in  his 
condition,  I  advised  him  to  go  and  hang  himself;  and  thus,  in 
his  much-regretted  absence,  I  come  before  you  in  behalf  of  the 
Class  of  1857,  to  give  cordial  welcome  to  some  twenty  new  acces- 
sions to  our  numbers,  and  to  "  omnia  Jura,  Privilegia,  Dignitates, 
Honores,  Insignia,  quae  hie  aut  uspiam  gentium  ad  eundem  Gradum 
Matrimonialem  evectis  concedi  solent."  We  have  indeed  been 
fortunate.  The  Class  of  '57  was  ever  good  and  true.  All  hail  the 
day  when  it  was  wedded  to  the  beautiful ! 

But  the  "  Wives  of  '57  "  enter  our  Class  not  as  we  entered  it. 
As  we  stand  upon  the  shores  of  Memory  to-night,  thoughts  come 
back  to  us  of  by-gone  days  and  trials  which  they  have  not  expe- 
rienced,  and  shall  never  know ;  for 

''-  We  are  not  to  tell  our  wives 
HoiD  wc  spent  our  College  lives." 

But  there's  many  a  memory  of  long  tasks  and  short  days ;  reminis- 
cences not  a  few  of  those  times  when  an  hundred  men  in  disgust  and 
dishahiUe  turned  out  from  yonder  barracks  in  the  middle  of  their 
rest — if  not  of  the  night— at  the  imperative  warning  of  that  bell, 
which,  if  unheeded,  brought  warnings  that  v^ere.  Memories  come 
back  to  us  of  times  when  examinations  were  plenty  and  knowledge 
scarce,  and  Tutors  fierce  and  inflexible.  Wc  shall  never  forget 
that  uncompromising  lead-pencil  of  far-seeing  and  conscientious 
Monitors,  nor  fail  to  remember  how  we  were  half-regretful  and  not 
wholly  unamused  when  we  saw  the  effect  of  those  unmeaning  let- 


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ters  to  our  sorrowful  ancestors.  And  after  we  had  climbed  the 
hill  and  crowed  from  its  summit,  reflecting  that,  steep  as  it  was, 
we  had  made  a  merry  time  of  it,  we  shall  never  forget  how  we  saw 
Pond  in  the  far  distance,  fast  after  us,  with  bills  in  his  hands  and 
hopes  and  fears  on  his  countenance,  all  of  which  had  a  tendency  to 
mar  our  enjoyment. 

But  not  so  with  the  "  Wives  of  '57."  They  do  nothing  as  we. 
Thinking,  speaking,  acting  differently,  they  have  their  own  w^ay  to 
secure  their  ends  and  achievements.  Whether  it  be  true  that  their 
blood  is  more  refined,  their  fibers  more  delicate;  or  whether,  as 
some  declare,  there  is  a  sex  in  the  soul,  it  is  not  for  a  bachelor  to 
affirm  ;  but  this  we  know  —  they  have  a  strange  and  taking  way 
with  them.  For  while  we  have  toiled  and  climbed  to  attain  that 
w^e  might  enjoy,  they,  without  care  or  effort  in  the  rough  ways  of 
College  life,  share  all  with  us,  sit  side  by  side  with  us,  and  move 
with  us  to  one  goal.  And  they  come  not  unwelcomed  nor  un- 
sought ;  for  when  they  set  themselves  to  men  of '57,  "  like  perfect 
music  unto  noble  words,"  we  a.re  bound  to  cherish  them  as  be- 
cometh  honest  lovers  of  the  Union. 

Think  of  it,  my  Classmates — twenty  married  men  in  all  the  joy 
and  bliss  of  a  doubled-and-twisted  existence!  The  imagination 
staggers  to  realize  this  stupendous  fact,  that  when  but  three  short 
years  have  passed  away,  twenty  men — no  older,  no  better,  no 
handsomer,  no  more  deserving  than  the  rest  of  us,  but  much  wiser 
and  far  happier — have 

"  Followed,  flattered,  courted,  addressed. 
Wooed,  cooed,  and  wheedled  and  pressed," 

until  they  have  not  only  doubled  their  existence,  but  some  of  them 
in  the  most  remarkable  manner  have  had  one  to  carry. 

Three  years  is  not  a  long  time.  But  a  man  can  do  a  great  deal 
in  three  years.  Only  three  years  have  passed  since  we  all  started 
together  from  this  quiet  harbor  to  make  our  trial-trips  upon  life's 
great  ocean.  We  have  all  learned  somewhat  from  this  three  years' 
voyage.  It  is  hard  and  difficult  and  dull  to  plow  through  the  buf- 
feting waves  of  this  life  without  a  mate.  We  need  one  who  shall 
look  out  for  white-caps  and  squalls ;  who  will  attend  to  our  rigging, 
trim  our  sails,  spread  our  canvas,  and  look  out  for  buoys  and  gales, 
that  life's  voyage  may  be  successful  and  joyous.  Three  years 
have  taught  us  this,  and  some  have  acted  upon  it.  The  purses 
that  were  wont  to  empty  for  double-joints   and   double   X  ale, 


82  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

are  now  expended  for  thin-soled  gaiters  and  very  beautiful  ribbons. 
Three  years  will  change  a  man's  tastes.  From  elegantly  bound 
volumes  he  turns  to  furniture  warehouses,  and  his  chief  desire  now 
is  to  get  that  "  love  of  a  bonnet,"  and  that  "  duck  of  a  cradle,"  for 
the  two  greatest  people  that  ever  inhabited  this  planet. 

Three  years  have  already  started  in  this  boisterous  pastime  of 
life  another  incipent  Freshman  Class,  who  will  long  years  from 
now  be  proving  to  generations  yet  unborn  (whose  bills  you  will 
have  to  pay)  that  John  C.  Calhoun  was  a  Linonian. 

Strange  metamorphoses  occur  in  three  years.  They  will  take 
a  class-mate  from  South  College,  a  youthful,  joyous  man,  where  he 
shall  hear  small  but  imperative  and  piercing  cries  for  an  immediate 
breakfast — cries  that  shall  remind  him  most  forcibly  that  he  is  not 
a  single  man.     Strange  metamorphoses  occur  in  three  years ! 

It  will  not  do,  my  Classmates,  to  deceive  ourselves  in  respect  to 
this  great  question.  Those  who  have  been  there  tell  us  that  in 
the  State  of  Matrimony  the  joys  of  double-blessedness  exceed 
those  of  a  single  and  isolated  life  as  far  as  Olympus  is  above 
gloomy  Tartarus.  They  say,  that  where  the  magic  of  love  is  pre- 
sent, that  every  cloudy  day  is  bright,  that  every  deformity  in  ]^a- 
ture  is  beauteous,  that  every  fog  is  clear,  that  every  equinoctial 
storm  is  pleasant,  and  every  thunder-clap  of  Jove  is  music,  pro- 
vided the  bolt  don't  strike  the  baby.  They  say  that  it  is  sugar 
in  their  tea,  as  well  as  buttons  on  their  shirt.     They  say  : 

"  It  makes  earth's  commonest  scenes  appear 
All  poetic,  romantic,  and  tender ; 
Hanging  with  jewels  a  cabbage-stump, 
And  investing  a  common  post,  or  a  pump, 
A  currant-bush,  or  a  gooseberry  clump, 
With  a  halo  of  dream-like  splendor." 

And  they  ought  to  know  ;  while  we  knew  them  as  truthful  men, 
who,  like  Washington  and  Mungo  Park,  w^ere  never  detected  in 
telling  a  lie.  I,  for  one,  believe  them.  If  my  condition  contra- 
dicts my  words,  it  is  because  there  are  many  other  truths  in  this 
world  beside  the  one  specified.  With  fathers  of  large  families  it 
is  generally  easier  to  find  appetites  than  dinners.  A  hridal  often 
tends  to  saddle  a  man  with  debts  ;  and  a  minister  especially  will 
make  a  poor  drive  of  it  if  he  make  a  bridal  without  a  hit  in  the 
mouth.  And  yet  I  have  the  most  profound  respect  for  those  who 
have  taken  the  fatal  leap.     And  I  appeal  to  "  those  who  have  gone 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  83 

before,"  if  a  sunbeam  in  a  cottage,  diminutive  pledges  of  affection,  . 
a  cat  dozing  upon  the  rug,  while  the  dog  dreams  upon  the  porch, 
are  not  within  the  reach  and  reasonable  ambition  of  the  ugliest 
surviving  brother  of  the  Class. 

Let  us  all,  then,  repent  and  do  likewise.  It  is  true  we  may  do 
that  we  shall  be  sorry  for,  since  a  wise  man  may  do  foolishly  what 
a  foolish  man  may  do  wisely.  But  let  me  exhort  you  to  run  the 
chances.  Imitate  the  bravery  of  your  brethren.  You  can  cer- 
tainly be  no  more  than  sorry  if  you  do  :  you  will  certainly  be 
sorry  if  you  don't. 

I  shall  enter  upon  no  eulogium  of  the  Wives  of  '57.  In  the 
■words  of  a  greater  man  than  myself,  (I  allude,  of  course,  to  the 
immortal  Daniel  Webster,)  "  they  need  none."  We  are  glad  to 
see  them  ;  may  they  come  fast.  We  admire  their  taste  in  choos- 
ing a  Class  whose  benediction  was  :  "  Our  hopes  and  not  our  fears 
go  with  them." 

But  for  these  miserable  "  half  lives  "  that  are  trying  to  go  it 
alone,  with  whom  I  train,  I  have  at  once  the  utmost  sympathy  and 
commiseration.  It  is  too  late  for  us  to  get  the  Cup,  but  we  may 
all  get  coupled.  May  the  bachelors  of  the  Class  have  no  peace, 
but  may  they  be  troubled  with  a  continual  itching  about  the  heart, 
until,  three  years  from  this  time,  two  hundred  strong  and  more,  we 
shall  again  pledge  the  "  Wives  of  '57,"  and  find  no  bachelor  to 
make  response.  When  each  man  shall  have  exchanged  his  discon- 
tented twang,  "I  wish  I  was  a  married  man  !".for  that  more  de- 
liojhtful  tune  : 

"  I  have  a  little,  pleasant  wife, 
Who  nothing,  nothing  lacks  ; 
She  keeps  herself  and  things  about 

The  house  as  neat  as  wax ; 
And  every  thing,  with  woman's  taste, 

Seems  placed  expressly  for 
The  pleasure  of  a  man  who  long 
Has  lived  a  bachelor ! 

"  Her  handkerchiefs  are  white  as  milk, 
Her  skirts  as  white  as  snow  ; 
Her  slippered  feet  are  small  and  neat, 

And  alw^ays  '  on  the  go.* 
She  floats  about  as  if  upborne 

On  gum-elastic  springs, 
Or  some  unseen,  mysterious  power 
With  undiscovered  wings, 
3 


S4:  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

"My  linen  has  a  glossy  white 

More  pure  than  ever  shone 
On  Parian  marble,  and,  what's  more, 

There^s  ne^er  a  button  gone. 
She  knits  me  stockings,  makes  me  shirts, 

And  darns  up  all  my  rents  ; 
And  saves  me  half  of  what  was  once 

My  bachelor  expense." 

The  Class  then  sung,  as  well  as  they  could  after  so 
much  cheering,  the  familiar  little  ode  of 

LAURIGER. 

Lauriger  Horatius ! 

Quam  dixisti  verum, 
Fugit  Euro  citius 

Tempus  edax  rerum. 

Chorus. — Ubi  sunt  o  pocula, 
Dulciora  melle ; 
Rixae,  pax,  et  oscula, 
Ridentis  puellse. 

Crescit  uva  molliter, 

Et  puella  crescit ; 
Sed  poeta  turpiter 

Sitiens  canescit. 

Chorus. 

Quid  juvat  seternitas 

Nominis ;  amare 
Nisi  terrse  filias 

Licet,  et  potare  ? 

Chorus. 

The  fourth  toast,  "  The  memory  of  our  Classmates 
who  have  died,"  was  responded  to  by  Francis  Eugene 
Butler,  who  said : 

Had  this  meeting  been  held  twelve  months  ago,  the  sentiment 
to  which  I  speak  had  been  unnecessary.  A  year  ago,  and  our 
ranks  were  yet  unbroken.    Up  to  that  time  death  had  not  invaded 


CL\SS  MEETINGS.  -  35 

our  number.  Out  of  all  the  one  hundred  and  eighty  men  that 
first  and  last  have  been  members  of  our  Class  since  1854,  with  a 
single  exception,  we  had  not  been  called  to  mourn  the  loss  of  one 
till  more  than  two  years  after  our  graduation.  Then,  in  a  few 
weeks,  two  of  our  Class  and  the  newly  wedded  wife  of  another 
were  called  away  by  death. 

Church  and  Fuller  are  dead.  Both  entered  in  Freshman  year  ; 
both  graduated ;  both  were  members  of  the  first  division ;  both 
had  .devoted  themselves  to  the  Gospel  ministry,  and  begun  a  pre- 
paration for  it ;  and  in  one  short  month  both  w^ere  called  home  to 
heaven.  They  were  lovely  and  pleasant  in  their  lives,  and  in  their 
death  they  were  not, long  divided. 

Frederick  N".  Church  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  July  14,  1838, 
and  died  in  Salisbury,  Ct.,  October  4,  1859. 

Hardly  was  his  College  course  ended  before  he  discovered  that 
the  disease  which  terminated  his  life  was  already  at  work.  And 
not  long  afterward  he  was  forced  to  relinquish  all  hopes  of  prose- 
cuting his  theological  studies.  But  his  physicians  thought,  that 
by  proper  care  he  might,  in  some  other  profession  than  the  minis- 
try, live  many  years.  He  embraced  this  hope,  and  for  more  than 
a  year  his  disease  (consumption)  seemed  under  control ;  and  with 
reviving  health  his  hopes  of  preaching  again  revived.  But  the 
spring  of  1859  put  an  end  to  all  such  fond  anticipations — his  grow- 
ing weakness  told  him  he  could  never  live  to  preach ;  but  even 
then  he  hoped  to  do  good  in  some  way,  and  turned  his  thoughts 
to  the  study  of  medicine.  He  bought  some  medical  books,  but 
was  too  ill  to  study.  He  gave  up  the  attempt,  and  sought  health 
in  a  Southern  trip.  After  a  few  weeks'  absence  he  returned  home 
worse  than  he  went.  As  summer  advanced,  he  removed  with  the 
family  to  Salisbury,  in  Connecticut,  where  he  gradually  sunk  and 
gently  passed  away. 

In  Junior  year,  I  think  it  was,  that  Church's  thoughts  were 
turned  to  religious  subjects,  and  he  soon  trusted  that  he  was  a 
Christian.  He  determined  to  study  for  the  ministry.  With  cha- 
racteristic resolution  he  attempted  to  crowd  the  first  year  of  the 
seminary  course  into  the  last  year  of  his  academic  study.  This 
close  confinement  and  neglect  of  exercise,  without  a  doubt,  de- 
veloped, if  it  did  not  originate,  the  disease  that  ended  so  fatally. 

Young  Church  was  no  ordinary  character,  though  exceedingly 
youthful  in  appearance,  and,  in  fiict,  he  wore  the  manners  of  a  man 
of  sixty.    With  a  genial  heart,  full  of  kindness  and  afiection,  he 


S6  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

walked  tlie  College-yard  with  a  gravity  surpassing  tlie  President's; 
bnt  it  was  natural  to  him,  it  was  all  his  own.  He  eschewed  the 
wicket-ground  and  the  roystering  song,  to  pore  over  the  pages  of 
Hamilton  and  Madison.  He  preferred  the  Federolist  to  Bleak 
House^  and,  in  his  Senior  year,  Gesenius  to  Irving,  His  mind  was 
logical  rather  imaginative  ;  he  looked  upon  amusements  as  frivo- 
lous, but  he  delighted  in  a  theological  discussion.  There  was  a 
dignity  in  his  manner  and  a  maturity  in  his  mind  that  seemed 
almost  ludicrous  in  one  so  young.  He  spoke  little,  but  alvvays 
sensibly,  and  sometimes  with  a  spice  of  wit  or  a  trace  of  humor, 
but  never  with  malice,  never  with  unkindness.  He  was  self-pos- 
sessed and  resolute,  he  was  amiable  and  cheerful,  he  was  buoyant 
and  hopeful.  He  has  not  an  enemy  now  :  I  doubt  if  in  College 
he  ever  had  one. 

He  has  gone.  Among  the  youngest  of  the  Class,  he  was  the 
first  to  die.  But  though  summoned  early,  he  was  ready  to  go. 
With  characteristic  reserve  he  spoke  but  little  of  his  feelings,  but 
it  was  plain  to  his  friends  that  his  trust  was  in  Christ,  and  that  his 
soul  was  at  peace. 

Edward  ThuestojS"  Fuller  was  born  at  Stamford,  Ct.,  May  1, 
1835.  Before  entering  College,  he  had  decided  upon  the  pro- 
fession of  the  Gospel  ministry;  and  a  year  subsequent  to  his 
graduation  was  matriculated  at  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Princeton,  ]!^.  J. 

At  the  beginning  of  his  second  year  at  Princeton,  he  presented 
himself  before  the  Presbytery  of  Long-Island.  After  a  severe  ex- 
amination by  that  body,  he  returned  home  to  his  father's  house  at 
Huntington,  L.  I.,  to  pass  the  night.  The  exposure  of  travel  and 
the  exhaustion  of  his  examination  brought  on  an  attack  of  illness, 
which  rapidly  developed  into  a  severe  case  of  dysentery.  His 
disease  at  first  yielded  to  treatment,  but  finally  returned  with 
greater  violence ;  and  for  nearly  eight  weeks  he  sufi'ered  great 
pain,  but  at  length  breathed  his  last  about  noon,  November  7, 
1859. 

Fuller's  was  a  guileless  character.  There  was  a  girlish  loveli- 
ness about  hira,  and  a  simplicity  that  amounted  almost  to  naivete. 
The  grace  of  God  had  worked  long  and  eifectively  upon  a  heart 
naturally  ardent  and  afi(3Ctionate.  He  had  a  poetic  temperament. 
He  was  enthusiastic  and  self-forgetful,  a  warm  and  devoted  friend, 
a  young  man  of  pure  mind  and  noble  purposes. 

His  skill  at  composition  and  grace  of  elocution,  both  greatly  de- 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  37 

veloped  since  his  graduation,  gave  promise  of  more  than  common- 
success  as  a  preacher ;  while  his  love  to  Christ  and  to  the  souls  ot 
men,  reminded  rae  not  a  httle  of  Samraerfield  and  .McCheyne. 
Through  all  his  painful  illness,  he  bore  himself  with  cheerful  re- 
signation. He  clung  to  life,  not  from  a  fear  of  death,  but,  like 
Church,  from  a  strong  desire  to  do  good.  When  his  physicians 
gave  him  up,  he  still  expected  to  live.  Hopefully  and  bravely  he 
battled  with  disease,  but  when  death  came,  he  met  it  with  the 
same  sweet,  submissive  smile  he  always  wore. 

Among  the  very  last  prayers  he  offered,  was  one  earnest  petition 
for  his  unconverted  friends,  and  those  souls  especially  whose  sal- 
vation he  might  have  brought  about  by  his  own  labors  had  he 
lived.  Solicitous  about  nothing  so  much  as  his  Master's  honor,  he 
hoped  his  death  would  do  more  good  than  the  labors  of  the  life 
which  was  denied  him. 

Thus  early  did  these  classmates,  at  their  Master's  bidding,  lay 
down  their  work  ere  it  was  begun,  and  enter  into  rest. 

It  was  a  sad  disappointment  to  both,  that  they  could  not  live  to 
preach.  Their  hearts  were  in  the  work.  But  who  shall  say  that 
it  is  not  better  as  it  is  to  their  friends  and  to  us  ?  It  was  painful 
to  part  with  them,  but  to  them  their  departure  can  not  but  be  joy- 
ous and  full  of  glory.  They  first  have  heard  the  voice  that  has 
called  them  up  higher.  Their  earthly  life  is  ended,  but  we 
do  not  mourn  for  them  as  those  that  have  no  hope.  The  fond 
wish  of  their  lives  was  disappointed :  this  is  our  judgment,  stand- 
ing in  the  valley  and  looking  at  the  mountain-top.  Could  we 
stand  upon  the  summit,  what  a  different  verdict  would  we  render  ! 

Their  lives  could  not  be  too  short,  for  theirs  were  true  lives, 
even  the  life  of  Christ  in  God.  Let  us  thank  God  for  these  class- 
mates, for  their  lives,  their  happy  death,  and  for  the  hopes  ^ve 
cherish  for  them.  Let  us  thank  God  that  he  has  taken  only  two, 
and  these  so  ready  to  go,  that  he  has  spared  the  rest,  and  that  we 
are  more  than  an  hundred  strong  to-day.  And  let  us,  in  affection- 
ate gratitude,  devote,  each  in  his  several  calling,  these  lives  to  the 
service  of  the  Blessed  One,  who  has  given,  and  who  has  redeemed, 
and  has  so  mercifully  spared  them. 

His  remarks  were  followed  by  tlie  singing  of  the  fol- 
lowing beautiful  hymn,  by  Feancis  M.  Finch,  of  the 
Class  of  '49  : 


38  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

ALUMNI    HYMN. 

Air  —  '•'•  Lencx^"* 

Beneath  these  sacred  shades 
P  Long-severed  hearts  unite  : 
The  tempting  Future  fades, 
The  Past  alone  seems  bright. 
O'er  sultry  clime 
And  stormy  zone 
Rings  clear  the  tone 
Of  MemVy's  chime, 

"We  come  to  tread  once  more 
The  paths  of  earlier  days, 
To  count  our  blessings  o'er, 
And  mingle  prayer  and  praise : 
For  mercy's  hand 
From  skies  of  blue^ 
Hath  linked  anew 
Each  broken  band. 

We  come,  ere  life  departs, 

Ere  winged  Death  appears, 
To  throng  our  joyous  hearts, 
With  dreams  of  sunnier  years  i 
To  meet  once  more 

Where  pleasure  sprang^ 
And  arches  rang 
With  songs  of  Yore. 

Not  all,  not  all  are  here  : 

Some  sleep  'neath  funeral  flowers, 
Where  falls  the  mourner's  tear. 
And  weep  the  evening  shov^^ers. 
Yet  thankfully 
Let  every  heart 
Its  love  impart 
To  Him  on  high. 

The  fifth  regular  toast,  "  Theologians  of  the  Class," 
brought  out  Rev.  Edwakd  W.  Hitciicock,  of  Tomp- 
kinsville,  Staten  Island,  who  addressed  us  in  nearly 
the  following  words : 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  39 

I  must  beg  your  indulgence,  Mr.  Chairman  and  Classmates,  while 
I  speak  briefly,  and  in  a  very  informal  manner,  in  behalf  of  the 
Theologians  of  our  Class.  I  had  hoped,  until  I  came  into  the  hall 
to-night,  to  listen^  not  to  speak.  But  our  Patriarch  Moses  is 
not  here  ;  word  comes  that  the  Lawgiver  is  busy  devising  a  third 
table  of  Laws  for  the  guidance  of  the  little  heiress  of  all  womanly 
graces  and  manly  virtues  ;  and  so,  while  his  heart  is  happy  and  his 
hands  are  full,  we  are  left  to  regret  his  absence. 

But  to  speak  a  word  in  the  name  of  twenty-se^en  classmates, 
of  course  the  wisest  and  best  of  the  hundred  who  have  chosen  the 
Gospel  ministry  as  their  life-work,  is  a  privilege  I  am  not  disposed 
to  decline. 

You  must  indulge  us  to  night.  Classmates,  while  as  Theologues 
we  congratulate  ourselves  upon  having  entered  the  most  ennobling., 
as  it  is  the  most  beneficent^  work  to  which  our  country  and  genera- 
tion summon  us.  My  brother  here  (most  worthy  representative 
of  the  Bar)  does  so  ''  magnify  his  office,"  that  it  has  actually 
assumed  proportions,  (to  the  eye  of  faith.)  But  does  he  not  know 
that  when,  under  the  benign  influence  of  the  truth  which  we 
preach,  men  "  learn  righteousness  and  hate  iniquity,"  red  tape  and 
legal  lore,  yes,  and  lawyers,  who,  alas !  "  load  us  with  burdens 
grievous  to  be  borne,"  and  then  ride  themselves,  will  find  an  ap- 
propriate niche  in  some  barbaric  museum  ?  What  I  mean  is  this : — 
with  the  future  and  certain  conquests  of  truth  and  love,  men  will 
become  truthful  and  loving;  iniquity,  intemperance  and  crimes 
cease,  and  with  them  brawls,  and  lawsuits  and  lawyers.  Li  this 
doing-away  process,  and  Christian  reform,  we,  as  Theologues,  are 
zealously  and  hopefully  engaged.  We  go  forth  to  the  "  Holy 
War,"  bearing  the  highest  commission,  and  with  the  firm  convic- 
tion that  the  Pulpit  is  Heaven's  chosen  instrumentality  in  spread- 
ing abroad  a  knowledge  of  the  truth  that  is  to  restore  to  earth  its 
lost  peace,  and  purity,  and  happiness.  We  believe  that  to-day  it 
has  no  rival  in  power  to  bless  the  world.  We  believe  that  it 
stands  majestic  by  God's  own  appointment,  towering  above  all 
other  sources  of  good  influence.  Yes,  we  believe  that  any  one  who 
will  weigh  the  power  of  the  pulpit,  and  trace  out,  if  only  so  far  a^ 
human  vision  can  penetrate,  its  noiseless  yet  mighty  influence  in 
supplying  the  wants  of  man's  religions  nature,  dispensing  abroad 
light  and  divine  knowledge,  creating  and  sustaining  a  righteous 
public  sentiment,  and  above  all,  as  an  agent  in  winning  souls  to 
Christ,  must,  if  frankly  honest,  say  with  Cowper ; 


40  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

"  The  Pulpit,  in  the  sober  use 
Of  its  legitimate,  peculiar  power, 
Must  stand  acknowledged, 
While  the  w^orld  shall  stand, 
The  most  important  and  effectual  guard, 
Support  and  ornament  of  Virtue's  cause." 

I  confess  that  the  Pulpit  has  not  always  been  valiant  for  the  right. 
It  has,  alas  !  been  guilty  of  forging  the  chains  of  darkness  ;  it  has 
been  loud  in  commendation  of  wrong.  Even  God's  sacred  temple 
the  Master  once  found  perverted  into  a  den  of  thieves — but  He 
did  not  leave  it  so.  Let  it  be  ours  to  maintain  the  integrity  of  the 
Pulpit.  From  the  consecrated  altars  at  which  we  minister  let  us 
offer  incense,  not  to  Baal,  but  to  God.  In  the  spirit  of  love,  but 
with  fearless  hearts  and  faithful  tongues,  let  us  plead  for  the  right, 
the  true,  and  the  ^ooc?. 

Indulge  me,  Classmates,  in  another  word.  I  can  hardly  be  true 
to  myself,  my  theme,  or  those  in  whose  name  I  speak,  without 
adding  it.  By  nature  ^YQ  are  religious  beings — I  do  not  say  holy, 
but  religious  beings.  Our  religious  nature  is  our  noblest  part ;  it 
was  once  a  stately  edifice,  and  though  now  the  prostrate  column 
and  the  shattered  wall  tell  of  a  mind  in  ruins,  yet  the  gold,  and 
gems,  and  ivory,  that  shine  amid  the  fragments,  suggest  what  w^as 
once  the  imperial  mansion — what  it  may  again  be  when  restored 
to  its  more  than  primeval  beauty.  This  restoration  can  only  be 
effected  through  a  reunion  of  the  soul  with  God — a  vital  union, 
consummated  by  faith,  and  hope,  and  love.  And  just  here  is  the 
highest,  holiest  mission  of  the  Pulpit — to  stimulate  the  religious 
aspirations,  to  point  heavenward  the  soul-thoughts  that  cling  to 
earth,  to  elevate  the  Cross,  the  world's  only  hope,  and  to  win  souls 
to  Him  who  was  once  our  suffering  Saviour,  but  now  risen  and 
glorified  Lord.  In  this  blessed  work,  which  an  angel  might  covet, 
God  grant  we  may  be  faithful. 

The  sixth  regular  toast  was,  "The  Lawyers  of  the 
Class,"  to  which  Joseph  Cooke  Jackson,  of  New-York 
City,  made  the  following  response : 

My  Classmates  : — Most  of  the  forty-one  Lawyers  of  the  Class, 
representing  fourteen  States  of  the  Union,  have  ghxdly  postponed 
all  arguments,  and  deserted  their  clients  and  the  Courts,  that  they 
might  be  here  to-night. 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  41 

As  reflections  have  just  been  cast  upon  the  single  men  present, 
I  feel  called  upon,  Mr.  Chairman,  by  the  toast  to  which  I  respond, 
to  inform  the  married  rnQn^  professionally^  that  Indiana  is  the  best 
State  in  which  to  procure  divorces  ;  and  if  that  State  seems  to  be 
far  away,  those  who  wish  can  avail  themselves  of  the  referee  system 
in  New- York,  which  has  almost  made  Hoboken  a  second  Gretna 
Green.  And  if  any  in  celibacy  are  contemplating  matrimony,  let 
me,  on  the  contrary,  loarn  them  of  the  laws  of  [ISTew-York,  for 
latterly  the  laws  of  Domestic  Relations  there  have  followed  the 
French  philosophy,  and  allow  the  wife  control  over  her  own  pro- 
perty, and  most  of  the  privileges  of  the  feme  sole.  This  false 
system  tends  to  the  isolation  of  the  individual,  and  fosters  selfish- 
ness and  excessive  self-reliance  in  persons  of  strong  traits  of  cha- 
racter ;  while  it  renders  others  too  indifferent,  unfeeling  and 
cynical.  Let  us,  then,  cling  to  the  grand  old  English  Common 
Law,  w^hich  makes  home  the  source  and  center  of  our  tenderest 
affections  and  most  refined  joys.  The  theory  of  Lord  Kenyon  is 
true,  that  he  who  breaks  the  wedding-ring  breaks  not  only  a  civil 
contract  and  the  public  peace,  but  sunders  what  God  has  joined 
together.  And  although  I  am  myself  a  member  of  the  unfortu- 
nate class  of  bachelors  in  this  gathering,  I  am  almost  ready  to  ex- 
claim with  them,  in  the  language  of  St.  Pierre :  "What  Avould  a 
poor,  isolated  soul  do  even  in  Heaven  ?" 

We  have  heard,  Mr.  Chairman,  what  the  clergy  of  the  Class  are 
doing,  and  the  physicians,  merchants,  farmers,  and  the  rest,  in 
their  several  ways,  are  doubtless  doing  just  as  much.  It  would 
seem  that  young  lawyers  are  expected  to  keep  pace  with  the 
growing  intelligence  of  all  the  various  industrial  callings.  To 
those,  therefore,  who  are  not  in  our  professional  ranks,  who  are  not 
linked  together  like  us  by  a  chain  of  judicial  j^recedents,  and  are 
not  expected  to  test  the  movements  of  the  times  by  the  touchstone 
of  legal  decisions  and  legal  principles,  we  shall  gladly  come  for 
instruction  and  aid  in  applying  the  principles  of  law  to  the  other 
pursuits  of  life. 

It  is  well  know^n  that  in  some  States  the  Courts  of  Chancery,  or 
Equity,  are  merged  into  the  Courts  of  Common  Law,  that  such  is 
the  tendency  of  American  jurisprudence.  The  lawyer,  therefore, 
of  the  broadest  grasp  of  mind,  best  disciplined,  and  in  full  sym- 
pathy with  nature  and  with  truth,  who  is  content  only  in  the 
possession  of  accurate  historical  and  scientific  knowledge,  attains 
to  a  keener  perception  of  the  deUcate  shades  of  right  and  wrong. 


42  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

more  readily  masters  new  complications  in  mechanics,  and  is  best 
qualified  to  adjust  the  numerous  troubles  of  domestic  life.  How 
thankful,  then,  Brethren  of  the  Bar,  should  we,  especially,  be  for 
the  rich  experience  of  University  life  and  discipline  ;  not  only  for 
what  our  beloved  instructors  and  favorite  authors  have  done  for 
us,  but  for  what  our  classmates  and  ourselves  have  taught  each 
other.  I  rejoice  in  the  fellowship  of  our  students  of  theology, 
believing  that  their  cherished  studies  are  the  noblest  preparation 
for  the  profoundest  study  of  the  law.  I  rejoice  that  I  am  to  share 
life's  feast  with  classmate  scholars,  and  in  the  probabihties  of  occa- 
sionally meeting  in  the  walks  of  business,  merchants,  manufac- 
turers, lawyers,  endeared  to  me  by  their  companionship  in  college 
studies  and  college  recreations.  And  what  lawyer  of  us  would  not 
take  a  double  pride  and  pleasure  in  procuring  a  patent  for  some 
mechanician  or  inventor,  or  in  drawing  up  the  deeds,  while  he 
partakes  of  the  rich  fruits,  of  some  agricultural  brother  of  the 
Class  ?  I  am  sure  that  I  am  speaking  for  all  of  our  fraternity, 
when  in  turn  I  ask  the  rest  of  you  to  come  and  see  us,  not  merely 
on  business,  but  at  our  homes — for  lawyers,  you  have  heard,  live 
well,  if  they  db  die  poor.  Most  of  all,  Mr.  Chairman,  do  I  abide 
in  the  hope  that,  as  time  rolls  on,  the  members  of  the  Class  of  1857 
— so  singularly  united  in  their  college  course — may  continue  their 
mutual  sympathies  in  all  the  labors  and  pleasures  of  the  future. 

I  will  not  embarrass  myself,  nOr  encumber  my  professional 
brethren,  with  any  promises  or  contracts  to  be  executed  infuturo. 
We  desire  simply  to  understand  well  our  profession  and  ourselves, 
that  we  may  manfully  meet  the  work  we  find  around  us.  Expe- 
rience has  already  reassured  us  that  we  are  but  children  groping 
in  the  dark  vestibule  of  the  temple  of  Justice.  We  promise  only 
to  follow  faithfully  professional  duty,  and  trust  that,  when  in  after 
years  we  meet  again,  we  can  report  that  we  have  kept  our  promise. 

Happily  the  law  is  not  simply  a  profession  or  a  science — it  is  a 
Ufe.  The  exceptions  to  Blackstone's  "Farewell  to  his  Muse,"  so 
fittingly  taken  by  Judge  Thomas*  last  night,  will  be  allowed  as 
well  by  every  experienced  counselor  as  by  every  inexperienced 
attorney.  The  law  is  too  broad  to  admit  of  routine.  If  in  the 
morning  we  plow  through  real  estate,  and  at  noon  collect  debts 
or  incur  them,  wc  claim  in  the  evening  a  seat  by  the  fire,  and  to 
sip  ambrosial  pleasures  from  the  fountains  of  friendship,  of  poetry, 

*  Address  of  Hon.  Bcnj.  F.  Thomas  of  Massacliusetts,  before  the  Phi  Beta 
Kappa  Society,  at  the  Yale  CoLLEaE  Commencement,  July,  18G0. 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  43 

and  of  love.  So  large  is  his  intercourse,  the  lawyer  can  not  be  too 
versatile,  he  can  not  be  too  natural  or  too  true ;  and  even  amid 
the  hardest  toils  by  day  or  night  he  is  ready  to  pause  with  his 
friend,  and  sing : 

"  No ;  law  is  no  waste  of  impertinent  reading, 

Which  seldom  produces  but  quibbles  and  broils  ; 
Still,  the  lawyer  who  thinks  he's  the  nicest  in  pleading 
Is  'likelier  far  to  be  caught  in  its  toils. 

"  But,  Brother  Attorneys,  how  happy  are  we ! 

May  we  never  meet  worse  in  the  practice  of  law 
Than  the  flaw  a  demurrer  can  gild  with  a  fee. 
And  the  fee  that  a  conscience  can  earn  from  the  law." 

The  seven  til  regular  toast,  "  Absent  Classmates,"  was 
not  responded  to,  as  it  somewhat  curiously  happened 
that  none  of  the  gentlemen  in  question  were  with  us  to 
speak  for  the  rest  of  them.  But-  those  who  were  ab- 
sent were  not  forgotten  ;  we  knew  they  would  have 
come  if  they  could,  and  we  missed  them  only  the  more 
for  that  reason. 

The  eighth  toast,  "  JSTon -graduate  Members  of  the 
Class,"  was  replied  to  by  Edgae  L.  Heermance  of 
Kinderhook,  N.  Y.,  who  had  been  favored  with  abun- 
dant opportunity  to  compare  The  Class  both  with 
another  Class  and  with  other  bodies  of  young  men. 
He  said  he  was  thankful  for  having  been  a  member  of 
'57  for  so  long  a  time,  and  thankful  also  to  the  Class 
for  their  kind  and  manly  conduct  toward  himself.  His 
remarks  were  appropriate,  and  were  heartily  applauded 
by  all  that  heard  them. 

Geoege  Peatt,  of  Norwich,  Connecticut,  in  reply  to 
the  ninth  regular  toast,  "  Class  Publications,"  gave  us  an 
account  of  all  the  miscellaneous  publications  of  .the 
Class,  from  The  Battle  of  the  Ball  to  the  Yale  Lit. 
Bringing  up  the  literary  reminiscences  of  the  Class,  he 
called  to  mind  many  of  the  pleasantest  incidents  of  our 
College  life,  but  seemed  to  be  of  the  opinion  that  the 


44  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

post-graduate  publications  of  the  Class,  of  wliicli  tlie 
Class-Boy  is  the  first  edition,  will  be  better  appreciated 
and  more  widely  circulated  than  even  the  brilliant  effa- 
sions  of  our  former  years. 

When  he  had  ended,  we  sung  our  old  Class  chorus, 
which  Joe  Jacksox  introduced  in  Sophomore  year,  and 
which  in  the  days  of  our  student-life  was  often  heard 
ringing  out  clear  and  loud  in  the  solemn  forest,  over 
the  glassy  surface  of  the  frozen  lake,  as  well  in  the 
rooms  of  the  College,  as  on  the  dancing  waves  of  the 
harbor  on  moonlit  evenings,  and  which,  with  us,  did  not 
refer  to  the  sorrows  of  Admetus,  but  rather  to  the 
happiness  of  '57 : 

10!    10!     (Euripides.) 

Ig)  Ig).     OTvyval  rrpoaodoi^ 
OTvyvdl  d'  oipetg  xr}p(x)V  fieXadpcdv . 
16)  fioL  [loi,  alal  alal. 
Tcol  (3gj  ;  TTjt  GTG) ;  Ti  /iejo) ;  tl  6e  jit]  ; 
TCGJg  dv  oXotjiav. 

Heney  STEONa  HuNTiisraTON,  of  the  And  over  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  in  response  to  "  College  Improve- 
ments projected  by  our  Class,"  spoke  as  follows : 

Me.  President  and  Classmates  : — Our  good  deeds  must  be 
proclaimed  to  the  world,  and  such  an  opportunity  as  this  to  do  it, 
where  all  are  so  perfectly  agreed,  is  very  rare  and  should  be  im- 
proved. In  truth,  it  is  appropriate  that  we  should  recall  to-day 
those  acts  and  that  influence  of  our  Class  upon  which  we  can  look 
with  satisfaction.  After  three  years  we  can  estimate  them  more 
correctly  than  before.  And  we  do  it,  not  from  pride,  but  for  that 
enjoyment  and  satisfaction  which  every  man  has  a  right  to  feel  in 
the  tiseful  acts  of  his  life,  and  above  all,  that  we  may  be  encour- 
aged by  the  thought  of  some  past  good,  in  the  elFort  to  accom- 
plish  much  more  in  future. 

The  first  grand  improYeiaent  projected  by  our  Class  consisted  in 
whipping  the  Sophs  in  the  Foot-ball  Game.     The  mere  fact  of  our 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  45 

SO  doing  may  not  have  been  iinprecedented  in  College  history,  but 
I  remember  hearing  our  revered  Tutor,  Tim.  D wight,  once  say 
that  his  Class  by  doing  it  were  made  so  vain  that  they  never 
amounted  to  any  thing  afterwards ;  whereas  w^e  were  only  con- 
firmed (if  possible)  in  modesty  and  good  works — a  result  which  I 
am  aware  that  some  evil-minded  persons  might  attribute  to  the 
fact  that  perhaps  we  didn't  whip  after  all. 

I  suppose  that  next  in  order  of  time  would  come  the  introduc- 
tion of  the  custom  of  rolling  stones  at  the  door  of  Moses  Welch's 
recitation-room,  rushing  violently  through  the  entry  while  the 
recitation  was  progressing,  and  volunteering  remarks  through  the 
keyhole — all  of  which  was  designed  by  the  Class  to  give  variety 
to  the  otherwise  monotonous  exercises  within. 

When  our  worthy*  Class  Secretary  requested  me  to  speak  upon 
this  subject,  he  suggested  Morning  Prayers  as  one  field  in  which 
improvement  was  effected  by  us ;  but  upon  mature  reflection  and 
consultation  I  can  not  conjure  up  any  thing  in  this  line  to  add  to 
our  renown — unless  some  of  our  number,  by  their  noble  persever- 
ance in  sleeping-over,  may  be  considered  to  have  ushered  in  the 
present  reign  of  peace  and  tranquillity  in  the  small  hours  of  the 
morning.  But  upon  this  whole  subject  I  would  refer  to  JBeard^ 
Holmes,  Southwick,  etc. 

I  next  find,  by  reference  to  the  Lit.^  that  w^e  greatly  elevated 
the  ideas  of  College  upon  the  subject  of  lohishers^  more  than 
double  the  number  of  pairs  having  been  raised  by  '57  than  by  most 
of  its  predecessors. 

I  can  not  stay  to  speak  of  Wicket  Clubs,  so  vigorously  sustained 
by  '57  ;  nor  of  Graham  Clubs,  in  which  Moses  Tyler,  Sam.  Sco- 
ville,  Volney  Hickox  and  others  took  such  delight,  and  in  which 
they  gained  such  freedom  from  all  the  ills  which  flesh  is  heir  to  ; 
nor  of  the  Voyage  round  the  World  projected  by  the  Class;  nor 
of  the  election  of  Mr.  Buchanan,  which  occurred  under  our  imme- 
diate auspices. 

Neither  can  I  do  more  than  allude  to  the  fact  that  wx  effected 
the  change — for  which  every  lover  of  comfort  will  be  thankful — 
of  Junior  Exhibition  from  Chapel  to  the  College-street  Church  ; 
that  for  Class  pictures  we  introduced  steel-engravings,  which  bore 
at  least  a  more  general  resemblance  to  humanity,  and  to  some 
body  in  particular,  than  those  wdth  which  the  books  of  our  prede- 

*  "  Dulce  est  ab  amicis  laudari." 


46  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

cessors  had  been  adorned;  and  that  we  did  our  full  part  in  intro- 
ducing new  tunes  and  songs,  and  still  more  in  increasing  that  spirit 
of  song  which  so  enlivens  and  gives  tone  to  College  life. 

We  may  look  with  just  pride  upon  the  efforts  made  by  some 
members  of  '57  to  improve  t\\Q  physical  condition  of  College.  So 
far  as  I  can  ascertain,  no  Class  previous  to  ours  ever  added  three 
boats  to  the  Yale  Navy  in  Freshman  year — one  of  them,  at  least, 
long  admired,  and  perhaps  the  first  positive  change  from  the  old 
Atalanta  style  to  the  more  light  and  rapid  boats  of  the  present. 

I  do  not  intend  the  presumption  of  claiming  for  '57  the  honor  of 
the  Langdonic  system,  but  somehow  the  good  Professor  became 
so  identified  with  our  Class,  that  when  it  left  he  felt  that  the  glory 
of  his  system  was  ended,  and  that  it  was  time  for  him  to  graduate. 

Still  more  have  we  a  right  to  rejoice  that  the  noble  Gymnasium, 
which  now  does  credit  to  Alma  Mater,  is  a  lasting  honor  to  some 
members  of  our  Class.  Of  course  we  do  not  deny  that  Hercules 
and  Samson  were  strong  men,  that  the  Greeks  were  good  gym- 
nasts, or  that  multitudes  of  penetrating  minds  had  discovered  the 
fact  that  Yale  College  was  sadly  in  need  of  a  Gymnasium.  But 
honor  to  the  man  of  '57  who  first  formed  a  definite  and  reasona- 
ble plan  for  supplying  the  want,  and  (with  the  aid  of  a  few  others 
of  kindred  spirit)  by  devising  liberal  things  himself,  and  urging 
them  upon  both  students  and  Faculty,  was  the  real  author  of  the 
present  Gymnasium. 

We  have  come  to  be  glad,  in  remembering  the  intellectual  cha- 
racter and  influence  of  our  Class,  that  there  was  a  disposition  to 
honor  every  hind  of  mental  excellence.  Scholarship  was  neither 
despised  in  the  effort  for  literary  and  oratorical  superiority,  nor 
did  it  when  merely  dead  and  mechanical  command  any  admiration. 
Some  of  our  number  gave  a  decided  impulse  to  the  neglected 
cause  of  Natural  Science  in  College.  Witness  the  noble  army  of 
botanists,  to  whom  tin  cans  became  objects  of  adoration,  and  the 
enthusiastic  attendants  upon  the  meetings  of  the  Yale  Natural 
History  Society. 

It  is  in  no  arrogant  or  boastful  spirit  that  I  say  that  the  moral 
influence  of  '57  was  for  the  improvement  of  College.  President 
Woolsey  (in  his  Historical  Discourse)  says  that  College  manners 
fluctuate  perceptibly  from  year  to  year.  A  good  standard  of  man- 
ners, then,  in  one  Class,  is  a  benefit  to  all.  And  such  a  standard 
(I  speak  of  manners  and  morals  as  almost  synonymous)  it  was  our 
good  fortune  to  possess  in  '57.  The  Class  was  free  from  that  nar- 
row and  false  religionism  which  makes  a  man  unnatural  in  his  con- 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  47 

duct ;  which  says,  "  Stand  by  thyself,  for  I  am  holier  than  thou  ;" 
while  there  was  among  us  much  of  that  real  honesty  and  manli- 
ness which  is  in  its  nature  genial,  yet  no  where  and  never  ashamed 
of  its  principles.  Th.e  general  spirit  of  the  Class  was  firm  against 
a  vulgar,  cowardly,  or  small-minded  joke,  while  it  was  in  strong 
sympathy  with  true  humor,  with  all  in  social  life  which  is  honest 
and  of  good  report. 

I  need  not  tell  you  that  I  could  go  on  ad  libitum  to  speak  of  the 
improvements  efiected  by '57,  but  perhaps  we  have  already  arrived 
at  a  due  appreciation  of  our  own  exalted  virtues.  That  which, 
even  on  this  occasion,  comes  most  earnestly  to  all  our  hearts,  is  not 
the  question  what  we  have  been,  but  what  we  are  to  be.  And  it 
seems  to  me,  my  Classmates,  that  this  very  subject  of  which  I  have 
been  speaking,  suggests  an  important  consideration  for  our  future 
course.  Among  honest  and  good  men  there  are  two  widely  dif- 
ferent classes.  One  consists  of  those  who  simply  receive  elevating 
influences,  who  fall  in  with  the  genei-al  current  of  good,  but  advo- 
cate nothing  unless  it  is  familiar  to  the  public  mind  and  fully  estab- 
lished in  public  confidence.  The  other  embraces  Improvers,  Pub- 
lic-spirited men.  Reformers,  all  who  desire  not  merely  to  do  no 
harm  in  society,  but  to  make  positive  contribution  to  its  enjoy- 
ment or  welfare. 

The  superiority  of  the  latter  class  is  obvious.  They  are  the 
life  and  tone  of  social  intercourse,  of  education,  of  religion.  It  is 
not  true  that  the  other  class  are  equally  useful  as  conservers  of 
good  which  already  exists,  for  no  man  can  really  appreciate  good 
without  desiring  to  widen  its  influence  ;  he  can  not  be  a  true  man 
without  something  of  that  enthusiasm  which  is  in  its  nature  pro- 
gressive ;  nor,  if  he  makes  no  advance,  can  he  fail  to  retrograde. 

Yet  men  are  rare  who  possess  much  of  this  life-giving  spirit  of 
improvement,  for  indolence  and  selfishness  are  always  at  work  to 
crush  it  out.  Shall  we  not  take  with  us,  then,  not  merely  the  gen- 
eral purpose  to  be  useful,  but  the  positive  purpose  to  alter  those 
things  which  are  wrong,  and  to  originate  those  things  which  the 
wants  of  society  demand  ?  It  is  true,  that  not  only  in  religion  and 
morals,  but  to  a  great  extent  in  philosophy  and  law,  our  great 
principles  are  given  us  at  the  outset.  But  old  truths  are  to  receive 
new  forms  and  new  applications.  We  need  that  love  of  truth 
itself  which  shall  prevent  us  from  thinking  that  its  power  lies  in 
old  forms  of  phraseology,  and  shall  give  us  confidence  to  express 
it  according  to  the  language  and  spirit  of  the  present,  living  world. 


48  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

We  need  such  a  conviction  that  truth  is  practical^  not  a  mere  ab- 
straction to  be  viewed  separately  from  life ;  that  we  shall  not  fear 
to  say  that  somethings  which  were  once  duties  are  not  so  now^,  and 
that  some  are  duties  to  us  which  were  not  tg  other  times ;  nor  fear 
to  apply  righteous  principles  to  all  actions,  however  trifling  or 
however  "  secular."  And  let  us  remember,  too,  that  there  is 
much  practical  work  to  be  done  by  all.  E'o  one  denies  this  in 
theory,  but  the  actual  labor  is  handed  over  to  a  very  few.  Every 
cultivated  man,  who  has  also  a  warm-hearted  sympathy  with  his 
fellow- men,  can  make  his  influence  tell  for  the  improvement  of  the 
manners  and  every  day  habits  of  the  peoj)le,  the  cultivation  of 
taste,  and  the  elevation  of  the  standard  of  Christian  education. 
And  then,  every  man's  profession  aflTords  abundant  field  for  im- 
provement to  him  who,  with  the  spirit  which  Bacon  cherished  to- 
ward Philosophy,  is  dissatisfied  with  his  profession  unless  it  pro- 
duces its  appropriate  good  fruits. 

The  men  who  labor  for  progress,  who  have  always  plans  for  the 
improvement  of  themselves  or  others,  are  not  the  ones  who  grow 
oldm.  feeling  or  sympathy.  Youth  is  a  time  of  progress,  of  insa- 
tiable desire  after  new  truth  and  new  experiences,  of  that  keen 
interest  in  others,  which  prepares  the  way  for  a  strong  regard  for 
their  welfare.  May  it  be  that  the  spirit  of  progress,  the  spirit 
which  is  always  seeking  some  new  and  higher  good  for  others  or 
itself,  shall  be  one  talisman,  among  many,  which  keeps  the  Class 
of  '57  from  ever  growing  old  ! 

The  following  song,  by  a  classmate  in  a  distant  State, 
was  selected  from  a  large  collection  of  poems,  some  of 
them  a  little  erratic,  sent  to  the  Secretary  a  few  days 
before  the  Class-meeting.  The  collection  was  named 
Peristera^  and  bore  this  dedication : 

"Ad  fratres   convenientes  almam  matrem  in  triennio,  kal.  sext.  viii. 

MDCCCLX. 

*'  Fratres,  rite  pio  regressu  conyenienteSy 

Almum  vcro  velim  quoque  redire  domum  • 
Sed  prohibet  Deus.     Inde  Peristera  dulcis, 
Quae  vice  pervolitat,  studia  nostra  ferat. 

"Springfield,  Illinois." 


CLASS   MEETINGS.  49 

[VoLNEY  HicKox's  manuscript  is  still  in  the  keepiog 
of  the  Class  Secretary.] 

ALMA      MATER. 

Air — '■'■Beautiful  Venice.'''' 

Dear  Alma  Mater  J     Beautifal  Home ! 
The  fairer  forever  the  farther  we  roam  ! 
Long  will  our  hearts  with  the  love  of  thee  burn, 
And  often  the  foot  of  affection  return  ; 
For,  darling  old  home,  thou  art  hoary  with  years, 
And  holy  with  prayers  and  affectionate  tears. 
And  the  shrines  of  the  world  have  no  other  goal 
Like  dear  Alma  Mater,  the  Home  of  the  Soul ! 
Like  dear  Alma  Mater,  the  Home  of  the  Soul ! 
Dear  Alma  Mater,  dear  Alma  Mater, 
Dear  Alma  Mater,  the  Home  of  the  Soul, 

Dear  Alma  Mater  !  Light  of  the  Land  ! 

Where  the  noblest  are  knit  in  a  brotherly  band ; 

Where  study  and  song,  like  the  tree  and  the  vine, 

Forever  together  in  sympathy  twine  ! 

0  bountiful  home !  in  thy  century-youth, 

Still  blossoming  beauty  and  ripening  truth ! 

The  shrines  of  the  world  have  no  other  goal 

Like  dear  Alma  Mater,  the  Home  of  the  Soul ! 

Like  dear  Alma  Mater,  the  Home  of  the  Soul ! 
Dear  Alma  Mater,  dear  Alma  Mater, 
Dear  Alma  Mater,  the  Home  of  the  Soul ! 

Volunteer  toasts  were  now  in  order,  while  the  tax- 
gatherers  were  going  about  bleediug  their  yictims  mer- 
cilessly. 

The  name  of  "  Chicago  "  aroused  J^ormatt  Carolan 
Perkhn-s  of  that  city,  who  held  the  attention  of  the 
Class  undivided,  while  he  told  about  the  Great  West. 

In  reply  to  "  Class-Pedagogues,"  James   Marshall 

told  us  of  the  discomforts  attending  the  development 

of  ideas  in  the  youthful  understanding.     George  W. 

KoBERTS  explained  how  he  had  to  come  on  by  the 

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50  CLASS   MEETINGS. 

freight-trains,  and  pay  by  tbe  ton,  as  the  strengtli  of 
the  passenger-cars  is  proportioned  to  the  ordinary 
weight  of  humanity.  He  seemed  to  be  very  proud  of 
his  Class,  as  well  he  might  be,  and,  large  as  he  was, , 
he  enlarged  on  the  subject  of  the  eloquent  speeches 
he  had  heard  this  night,  and  upon  the  general  success 
of  the  Class-meeting. 

James  B.  Cone  said  he  had  come  four  thousand  miles 
to  attend  this  meeting,  and  should  go  back  four  thou- 
sand miles  after  it  was  over.  This  fact  alone  was 
enough  to  show  his  love  for  the  Class. 

The  presence  of  Isaac  E.  Claek  being  discovered, 
the  Class  of  '55  was  toasted  and  cheered.  Mr.  Clark 
rose  blushingly  and  said  that  it  gave  him  pleasure 
to  speak  for  his  Class.  He  had  enjoyed  to  the 
utmost  his  ow^n  Class-meeting,  and  "was  very  happy  to 
be  present  at  ours  also.  The  Classes  of  '55  and  '57  were 
always  good  friends  to  each  other,  and  he  had  many 
personal  friends  in  our  number.  He  went  on  to  say, 
that  "  this  night  is  the  culminating  time  of  life  for 
the  Class  here  met  together ;  here  the  past  of  College- 
life,  hallowed  by  the  three  years  that  have  removed  it, 
meets  the  anticipated  future,  and  the  two  combine  to 
give  an  hour  of  intense  enjoyment  that  will  be  remem- 
bered through  your  whole  lives.  You  will  enjoy  it  for- 
ever. When  you  camo  here  as  Freshmen  seven  years 
ago,  we  of  '55  had  a  great  anxiety  to  know  what  kind 
of  a  Class  you  would  be.  You  soon  won  our  admira- 
tion by  your  manly  conduct  on  the  football-ground  and 
elsewhere,  and  you  have  continued  to  hold  it  ever  since. 
Thanking  you  again  for  kindly  remembering  my  Class 
and  myself,  and  for  keeping  me  here  to-night,  I  give 
you  the  united  good  wishes  of  '55  for  this  life  and  for 
the  life  beyond.     May  God  bless  you  and  yours." 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  51 

Holmes  then  called  for  Levi  Holbrook,  tlie  nian  who 
had  been  eating  roast  dog  on  the  Rocky  Mountains. 

Holbrook  in  reply,  premising  that  the  present  occasion 
was  an  out-and-out  Class-meeting,  and  one  which  ought 
to  be  the  jolliest  of  them  all,  said  that  nothing,  it  ap- 
peared, could  be  more  pleasing  than  for  a  few  moments 
to  recall  some  of  the  every-day  scenes  and  incidents  of 
our  college  life.  He  then  proceeded  to  contrast  our  pre- 
sent and  former  surroundings  on  the  same  spot.  The 
ecstatic  aspirations  of  our  Oochleaureati  were  being  ful- 
filled —  "  Fond  eyes  were  beaming  on  us  to-night ;"  for 
did  we  not  all  rightfully  appropriate,  each  man  to  him- 
self, the  one  hundred  and  fifth  part  of  the  affections  of 
the  numerous  wives  of  the  Class,  by  whose  presence  we 
had  been  cheered  ?  Whereas,  when  we  sang  that  song, 
having  before  our  eyes  the  Faculty's  terrible  Ordinance 
upon  Matrimony,  our  hopes  were  largely  blent  with 
fears  —  the  fear  not  only  of  losing  our  sheep-skins,  but 
of  even  losing  ourselves  out  of  College  ;  so  that  we 
were  ready  to  join  in  Admetus'  cry  of  anguish  : 

Olfiot.  n6iiLL,e  rrpbg  decjv  aTt'  diMj-idroyv 
yvvdlna  T7Jv6s,  jirj  fi'  eX^fg  i^prjfisvov ! 

That  is,  according  to  the  elegantly  literal  version  of  our 
Classmate  Willey :  ''  For  God's  sake,  take  the  woman 
out  of  our  eyes  !" 

Launching  out  from  this  well-remembered  translation, 
Holbrook  went  on,  keeping  the  table  in  a  recurring 
series  of  smiles,  as  he  piled  up  one  on  another  those 
mirthful  incidents  which  were  in  College  the  life  of  the 
Class,  and  familiar  as  household  words  in  their  mouths, 
but  which  your  Secretary  would  no  sooner  attempt  to 
report  than  a  speech  of  Dr.  Cox,  the  polyglottic. 


52  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

In  conclusion,  turning  upon  Holmes  with  a  verse  of 
his  Foot-Ball  Song,  he  declared  that  wherever  he  had 
been,  from  where 

"  Our  dragons,  the  fire-eaters, 

Were  chewing  Yankees  whole, 
To  where  the  chewing  Yankee 

Whittles  the  Arctic  pole  ; 
Where'er  among  the  Blackfeet 

He  yokes  his  buffaloes, 
Or  for  their  hair-grease  trieth  bears 

Among  Katahdin's  snows ;" 

the  result  of  all  his  observation  was  the  conviction  that 
no  where  else  is  there,  over  and  above  all  rivaliy  and 
contest,  so  much  genuine  good  feeling  and  fellowship  as 
within  college-walls,  and  in  no  College  so  much  hearti- 
ness and  sociality  as  in  our  own  Alma  Mater.  He  re- 
joiced that  the  old  mustering  cry  of  ''  Yale,"  reaching 
our  ears  wherever  we  were  through  the  land,  had 
brought  us  together  once  more,  to  live  over  again  for  a, 
few  hours  our  student-life ;  for  that  freshness  and  earn- 
estness which  is  so  called  for  in  the  world,  and  which  a 
man  ought  to  carry  through  manhood  into  age,  is  only 
kept  by  keeping  up  the  heart  of  youth.  From  this 
fresh  clasp  of  Classmates'  hands,  this  sight  of  old,  fa- 
miliar faces,  these  sounds  of  old-remembered  tunes,  we 
would  go  out  feeling  stouter  for  the  work  of  life — feel- 
ing the  truthfulness,  and  cherishing  the  spirit  of  the 
apjDeal  in  the  German  Burschen  Song : 

"  Think  oft,  ye  brethren. 
Think  of  the  gladness  of  our  youthful  prime  ; 
It  cometh  not  again — that  golden  time." 

The  Secretary  then  called  the  roll  of  the  Class,  each 
one  rising  to  tell  where  he  had  been  for  three  years, 
what  he  had  been  doing,  how  he  liked  it,  and  what 


CLASS  MEETINGS.  53 

were  his  expectations.  Of  those  of  the  Class  who  were 
not  at  the  meeting,  the  best  account  that  any  one  could 
give  was  presented.  Not  a  few  letters  from  absent 
Classmates  were  read,  but  as  the  first  gray  feathers  of 
Aurora's  wings  were  already  seen  through  the  window- 
blinds,  we  had  to  hasten  the  concluding  exercises.  The 
usual  votes  of  thanks  were  passed — to  ''  Mine  Host,"  to 
those  who  responded  to  toasts,  to  the  Class  Committee, 
to  the  Class  Secretary,  etc. 

It  was  voted  unanimously,  that  we  could  not  wait 
seven  years  for  our  next  meeting,  and  that  the  Class 
meet  again  in  July,  1863. 

The  Class  then  sung 

QUANDO     ITERUM? 

When  shall  we  meet  again  ? 

Meet  ne'er  to  sever  ? 
When  shall  peace  wreathe  her  chain 

Round  us  forever  ? 
Our  hearts  will  ne'er  repose 
Safe  from  each  blast  that  blows 
In  this  dark  vale  of  woes, 
Never,  no  never ! 

When  shall  love  freely  flow, 

Pure  as  life's  river  ? 
When  shall  sweet  friendship  glow 

Changeless  forever? 
Where  joys  celestial  thrill, 
Where  bliss  each  heart  shall  fill^ 
And  fears  of  parting  chill 
Never,  no  never ! 

Soon  shall  we  meet  again, 

Meet  ne'er  to  sever ; 
Soon  will  peace  wreathe  her  chain 

Round  us  forever ; 
Our  hearts  will  then  repose 
Safe  from  all  worldly  woes ; 
Our  songs  of  praise  shall  close 
Never,  no  never  ! 


54  CLASS  MEETINGS. 

A  huge  cake  was  cut  up,  eacli  uian  taking  a  slice 
away  with  him,  and  after  nine  cheers,  we  marched  over 
to  the  grounds  in  front  of  South  Middle,  where,  stand- 
ing in  a  circle,  we  sung  rather  huskily  a  verse  from 
George  Pratt's  Presentation-Day  Class  Ode  : 

FAREWELL, 

Farewell !  Farewell !  the  parting  word 

To-day  we  sadlj  sing, 
Though  round  our  hearts  the  hopes  of  life 

Like  summer  blossoms  spring ; 
But  Fet  the  years  bring  joy  or  tears^ 

As  youth  and  life  decline, 
"  We'll  take  a  cup  of  kindness  yet  " 

For  Yale  and  Auld  Lang  Syne  I 


We  went  round  the  circle  shakino^  hands,  we  ao^ain 
nine  times  cheered  the  College  and  the  Class^  and  the 
Triennial  Meeting  was  ended. 


STATISTICS 


GRADUATED  MEMBERS  OF  THE  CLASS  OF  1857. 


WHITTLESEY    ADAMS. 

Born  at  Warren,  Trumbull  Co.,  Ohio,  ISTov.  26,  1832. 

Entered  Senior,  from  Warren,  Sept.  1856. 
Has  been  at  Warren,  studying  Law,  and  partly 

editing  a  paper. 

Appointed  Notary  Public,  Jan.  18,  1858. 

Clerk  of  Probate,  Oct.  25,  1858. 

County  School  Examiner,  Feb.  16,  1859. 

Admitted  to  practise  Law,  ^              1860. 
Address :  Warren,  Trumbull  Co.,  Ohio. 

EDMUIS-D   THOMPSON   ALLEN". 

Born  at  Fair  Haven,  Mass.,  Aug.  10,  1836, 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Studied  Law  in  New-Bedford,  Mass. ;  and  was 

admitted  to  practise  Law  in  all  the  Courts  of 

the  Commonwealth,   on  motion  of  Ex-Go  v.. 

John  H.  Clifford,  Nov.  17,  1859. 

Is  now  in  Gov.  Clifford's  office,  at  New-Bedford. 

OERIN   FEINK    AVEEY. 

Born  in  Susquehanna  Co.,  Pennsylvania,  May  1,  1831. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Has  been  teaching,  and  studying  Law. 

Admitted  to  practise  Law,  Oct.  1,  1859. 

Address :  Waverley,  Bremer  Co.,  Iowa. 


56  STATISTICS. 

DAVID    DWIGHT   BALDWIN. 

Born  at  Honolulu,  Sandwich  Islands,  Nov.  26,  1831. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  Julj  26,  1853. 

Sailed  for  Sandwich  Islands,  Oct.  30,  1857. 

Is  Superintendent  of  Government  Schools  in  the 

First  District  of  Maui;  600  pupils,  and  16 

assistant  teachers. 
Married  to  Miss  Louisa  G.  Morris,  daughter  of 

Elliott  Morris,  Esq.,  of  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  Oct.  7,  1857. 

A  daughter,  Lilian  Charlotte  Baldwin,  born,  Oct.  25,  1858. 

A  son,  Erdman  D wight  Baldwin,  born,  Dec.  7,  1859, 

Address :  Lahaina,  Maui,  Sandwich  Islands. 

BENJAMIN   FRANKLIN    BAKGE. 

Born  in  Pennsylvania,  1832. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Has  been  teaching ;  is  at  present  in  the  vicinity 
of  Natchez,  Mississippi. 

EDWIN   BAEEOWS. 

Born  at  Norton,  Mass.,  Jan.  24,  1834. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Taught  school  two  terms,  and  has  since  been 
Clerk  for  the  Wheaton  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, at  Norton. 

AUGUSTUS    FIELD    BEAED. 

Born  at  Nor  walk.  Conn.  May  11,  1833. 

Entered  Freshman,  having  been  in  the  Class  of 

1856,  Sept.  15,  1853. 

Studied  Theology  at  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  1857-May,  1858. 

Studied  Theology  at  Union  Theol.  Sem.,  N.  Y. 

City,  1858-59. 

Traveled  six  months  in  Europe,  and  returned 

to  Union  Theol.  Sem.  in  autumn  of  1859. 

Ordained  to  preach  the  Gospel,  May,  1860. 

Address :  Portland,  Maine. 

MILES  BEAEDSLEY. 

Born  in  North-Branford,  Conn.  (?)  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853. 

lias  not  been  heard  from,  but  is  supposed  to  be 
teaching  in  one  of  the  Western  States. 


STATISTICS. 


57 


JAMES    PRESTON   BECK. 

Born  in  Missouri.  (?)  1835  or  '36. 

Entered  Junior,  from  Lexington,  Missouri,  Sept.  18,  1855. 

Has  been   in   St.  Louis,  New-Orleans,  and  in 

JSTew-Mexico,  looking  after  his  interests  in  a 

silver-mine. 
Married  to  Miss  Fanny  Reid,  of  Stanton,  Va.,  Feb.  1860. 

THEODORE   WILLIAM     ELY     BELDEN. 

Born  at  West- Springfield,  Mass.  June  6,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman  ;  having  been  for  some  time 

at  Williams  College,  Feb.  6,  1854. 

Studied  Law   in  ISTew-York,  and  admitted  to 

the  Bar,  May,  1859. 

In  partnership  with  Judge  Jas.  R.  Whiting,  130 

N"assau  street,  X.  Y. 

CHARLES    SEYMOUR   BLACKMAIST. 

Born  at  Seymour,  Conn.,  April  7,  1837. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

In  the  wholesale  paint,  glass,  etc.,  business,  with 

E.  Atwater  &  Co.,  Montreal,  Canada. 
Married  to  Miss  Sarah  J.  Atwater,  daughter  of 

Elihu  Atwater,  Esq.,  of  Montreal,  April  4,  1860. 

ELI    V^HITj^EY   BLAKE. 

Born  at  New-Haven,  Conn.,  April  20,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,                                             ^  July  25,  1853. 

Studied  Chemistry  in  Yale  Scientific  School,  1858-1860. 

At  Peacedale,  R.  I.,  for  six  months,  1860. 

Married  Miss  Helen  Mary  Rood,  of  New-Haven,  March  8,  1860. 
Address  :  New  Haven,  Connecticut. 

JOHN   QUINCY    BRADISH. 

Born  at  Floyd,  Oneida  Co.,  N.  Y.  March  29,  1832. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853. 

Engaged  in  teaching ;  is  Principal  of  the  Meri- 

den  Institute,  Meriden,  Conn. 
Married  to  Miss  S.  Jennie  Mather,  of  Sufiield, 

Conn.,  Dec.  3,  1858. 

Mrs.  Bradish  died  at  Meriden,  Nov.  1,  1859. 


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STATISTICS. 


LESTEE    BRADNER. 

Born  at  Dansville,  jfsT.  Y., 
Entered  Freshman, 

In  the  Freight  Office  of  Illinois  Central  R.  R. 
Co.,  Chicago,  Illinois. 

EGBERT    BEOWI^". 

Born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Entered  Freshman, 

In  New-Haven  till 

Since  then  in  a  Pork  house  in  Cincinnati,  as 

Book-keeper. 
Married  to  Miss  Caroline  P.  Root,  daughter  of 

Joel  Root,  Esq.,  of  N"ew-IIaven, 

JOSEPH   PAYS  ON    BUCKLAND. 

Born  at  Springfield,  Mass., 
Entered  Freshman, 
Taught  school  in  Holyoke,  Mass., 
Studied  Law  in  New- York  City, 
Address:  Chicopee,  Mass. 

JACOB    STAATS    BUENET. 

Born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 

Entered  Freshman, 

Studied  Lav/  at  the  Cincinnati  Law  School, 

Admitted  to  the  Bar, 

Is  now  in  Europe,  expecting  to  study  a  year  or 
two,  and  then  return  to  practise  Law  in  Cin- 
cinnati. 

Address :  ISTo.  7  Schadow  Strasse,  Berlin,  Prussia. 

FRANCIS   EUGENE    BUTLER. 

Born  at  Suffield,  Conn., 

Entered  Sophomore,  from  N'ew-York  City, 

Studied  Theology  at  Princeton, 

Preached    at    Bedford   Springs,    Penn.,   three 

months  in  the  summer  of 
Preaching  at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  in   the    spring 

and  summer  of 
Address  :  Paterson,  New- Jersey. 


Nov.  1,  1836. 
Sept.  13,  1853. 


March  8,  1836, 

May  3,  1854. 

May,  1858. 


Oct.  2,  1860. 


Oct.  7,  1835. 
July  26,  1853. 

1857-58. 
1858-59. 


April  18,  1837. 

July  25,  1853. 

1857-59. 

1859. 


Feb.  7,  1825. 

Sept.  13,  1854. 

1857-1860. 

1859. 

1860. 


STATISTICS. 


59 


WILLIAM  CULLEN^   CASE. 

Born  at  Granby,  Conn.,  Feb.  n,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

Studied  Law  at  New-Haven,  and  admitted  to 

the  Bar,  March  1,  1860. 

Address :  Granby,  Conn. 

MYEOI^   NEWTON   CHAMBERLIX. 

Born  at  [N'ew-Haven,  Conn.  Sept  6,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

Teaching  at  Sandlake,  N.  Y.,  six  months,  1857-58. 

Teaching  at  Greenfield  Hill,  Conn.,  summer  of  1858. 
N"ow  at  Binghamton,  Broome  Co.,  N".  Y. 

JOSEPH    ALONZO    CHRISTMAX. 

Born  at  Evansbury,  Montgomery  Co.,  Pa.,  Sept.  1,  1836. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Oct.  25,  1854. 

Has  been  studying  Law,  and  teaching  in  the 

Southern  States.    Is  at  present  running  Alamo 

College,  San  Antonio,  Texas. 

FEEDEEICK    NATHANIEL    CHUKCH. 

Born  in  Philadelphia,  July  14,  1838. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  13,  1853. 

After  graduation,  he  went  home  to  Philadelphia, 
and,  as  his  health  permitted,  studied  Theo- 
logy. In  the  summer  of  1 859  he  went  with  his 
family  to  Salisbury,  Conn.,  and  remained  there 
in  declining  health  until  he  died,  Oct.  4,  1859. 

For  a  fuller  account  of  him,  see  Butler's  Speech  at  the 
Triennial  Meeting. 

GEOKGE   WETMOEE   COLLES. 

Born  in  N"ew-OrlGans,  March  13,  1837. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  New- York,  Sept.  20,  1853. 

Went  to  Europe  for  some  months,  and  returned 

to  study  Law  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  Sept.  1859. 

Is  now  at  home,  at  Ko.  35  University  Place, 

Kew-York. 

JAMES   BREWSTEK    CONE. 

Born  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  Jan.  6,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853. 


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STATISTICS. 


Remained  at  Hartford  nearly  a  year,  when  he 

went  to  Europe, 
In  various  parts  of  France,  and  other  countries, 

traveling,  studying  the  Art  of  Designing,  and 

holding  the  office  of  Yice-Consul  of  the  United 

States  at  Lyons, 
Returned,  to  be  present  at  Class-meeting,  after 

which  he  went  back  to  France, 
Address :  ISTo.  30,  Rue  du  Faubourg  de  Basle, 

Mulhouse,  Haut  Rhin,  France. 


1858. 


1858-June,  1860. 
Aug.  1860. 


JOHJSr    THOMAS    CROXTON. 

Born  near  Paris,  Bourbon  Co.,  Kentucky,  E"ov.  20,  1836. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.  13,  1854. 
Has  been  teaching,  traveling,  and  studying  Law. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  of  Kentucky,  Sept.  1858. 

Married  to  Miss  Carrie  A.  Rogers,  of  Kentucky,  April  10,  1860. 

A  son,  Henry  Rogers  Croxton,  born,  Jan.  31,  1861. 

JOHN    CALVIN   DAY. 

Born  at  Hartford,  Conn.,  Nov.  3,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853. 

At  home,  in  Hartford,  for  a  year. 

Sailed  for  Europe,  July  24,  1858. 

After  visiting  most  of  the  States  of  Western 

Europe,  he  returned  to  Hartford,  Oct.  18,  1859. 

Sailed  for  Southern  Europe,  March  3,  1860. 

Is  now  at  Milan;  return  uncertain. 
Address:  Care  of  Day,  Owen  &  Co.,  Hartford. 

HENRY   SWIFT   DEFOREST. 

Born  at  South-Edmeston,  1^.  Y.,  March  17,  1833. 

Entered  Freshman,  "     Sept.  14,  1853. 

At  Yale  Theological  Seminary  a  year,  until  July,  1858. 

Tutor  of  Mathematics  in  Beloit  College,      Sept.  1858-July,  1860. 
At  Union  Theol.  Sem.,  K  Y.,  since  Sept.  1860. 


STEPHEN  DECATUR  DOAR. 


Born  at  St.  James,  near  Charleston,  S.  C, 
Entered  Freshman, 


Jan.  1838. 
July  14,  1854, 


STATISTICS.  '  61 

At  the  Medical  College  of  the  State  of  South- 
Carolina,  ,  "  1857-1860. 

Graduated  thereat,  1860. 

At  present  in  Paris,  pursuing  his  studies  ;  ex- 
pects to  return  in  1862,  and  practise  in 
Charleston. 

Address :  ISTo.  66  Rue  de  la  Seine,  Paris,  France. 

DAVID    STTJAKT   DODGE. 

Born  in  Kew-York  City,  Sept.  22,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Studied  Theology  in  New- York ;  licensed  to  preach,  April  3,  1860. 
Married  Miss  Ellen  S.  Phelps,  daughter  of  John 

J.  Phelps,  Esq.,  of  Kew-York,  June  20,  1860. 

Sailed  for  Europe,  July,  1860. 

At  present  in  Egypt ;  will  probably  be  abroad 

two  years.     Address  :  care  of  Phelps,  Dodge 

&  Co.,  19  and  21  Cliff  Street,  New- York. 

WILLIAM   EMIL   DOSTEE. 

Born  at  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  Jan.  8,  1837. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.  13,  1854. 

Studied  Law  at  Yale  Law  School,  1857-58. 

At  Harvard  Law  School,  1858-59. 

Li  Germany  pursuing  his  studies,  several  months,  1860. 

Returned  about  Jan.  1861. 
Address :  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

SOLOMOi^   JOH]fsrSON   DOUaLASS. 

Born  at  New-Hartford,  Conn.,  Oct.  3,  1834. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853. 

At  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1857-June,  1860. 

Teaching  in  Iowa,  1860-61. 

ALBERT    WALDO    DRAKE. 

Born  at  South-Windsor,  Conn.,  Feb.  21,  1835. 
Entered  Junior,  from  Williams  College,  Sept.  18,  1855. 
Studied  Law  in  Hartford  and  in  New-Haven,  1857-59. 
Admitted  to  practise  Law  in  the  spring  of  1859. 
Elected  to  Connecticut  House  of  Representa- 
tives by  12  majority,  1859. 
Ran  again,  and  was  defeated  by  8  votes,  1860. 
Has  traveled  several  months  in  the  North-West. 
Is  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  practising  Law. 


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STATISTICS. 


EDWARD   LOUIS    DUER. 

Born  at  Crosswicks,  N.  J.,  Jan.  19,  1836. 

Entered  Junior,  from  the  Engineering  Depart- 
ment of  Yale  College,  Oct.  1855. 

Studied  Medicine,  and  graduated  at  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania,  March  18,  1860. 

Is  now  Resident  Physician  at  Blockley  Hospital 
in  Philadelphia. 

HENRY    MELZAR    DUTTON. 

Born  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  Sept.  9,  1838. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

Studied  Law  in  New-Haven,  1858-59. 

LL.B.     Yale,  July  28,  1860. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  at  New-Haven,  Oct.  1859. 
Is  practising  Law  at  Litchfield,  Conn. 

CHARLES   BROCKAVAY   DYE. 

Born  at  Broadalbin,  Fulton  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  T,  1828. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853. 

Studied  Theology  in  Union  Theol.  Sem.,  N.  Y.,  1857-59. 

Ordained  Pastor  of  a  church  in  Torrington,  Conn.,  Oct.  26,  1859. 

Left  Torrington  and  came  to  New-Haven, 
Conn.,  to  which  place  letters  may  be  di- 
rected. Autumn  of  1860. 

Married  Miss  Annie  R.  Winchester,  of  New- 
Haven,  Aug.  30,  1859. 

A  son,  Oliver  Winchester'  Dye,  born,  May  26,  1860. 


DANIEL   CADY   EATON. 

Born  at  Fort  Gratiot,  Mich., 
Entered  Freshman,  from  New-Haven,  Conn., 
Resided  at  New-Haven  nearly  three  years,  until 
During  the  greater  part  of  which  time  he  was 

a  student  of  Botany,  with  Prof  Asa  Gray,  in 

the  Lawrence  Scientific  School  at  Cambridge, 

Mass. 
Sci.  B.     Harv., 
Since  May,  1860,  has  been  in  New-York  City, 

at  291  Second  Avenue.     Expects  to  continue 

the  study  of  Natural  History. 


Sept.  12,  1834. 

July  25,  1853. 

May  1,  1860. 


July  18,  1860. 


STATISTICS.  63 

ALFEED   LEWIS   EDWARDS. 

Born  in  New-York  City,  Dec.  2,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  July  25,  1853. 

In  New- York,  after  graduation,  until  1859. 
Studied  Law  in  the  office  of  Daniel  Lord,  Esq., 

N.  Y.,  Jan.-July,  1859. 

At  Harvard  Law  School  since  Sept.  1859. 
Expects  to  practise  Law  in  New-York. 

EDMOITD   DUCEE    ESTILETTE. 

Born  in  Louisiana,  1833.  (?) 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

Remained  in  New- Haven  for  some  months  after 

graduating. 
Studied  Law  in  Louisiana,  and  was  admitted  to 

the  Bar,  Aug.  1861. 

Married  Miss  Fanny  Thompson  Bacon,  daughter 

of  Daniel  Bacon,  Esq.,  New-Haven,  Conn.,  Nov.  11,  1857. 

A  son,  Edmond  Ducre  Estilette,  born  Sept.  30,  1858. 

A  daughter,  Julia  Bacon  Estilette,  born  May  12,  1860, 

EDWAED    JOHN   EVANS. 

Born  at  York,  Pa.,  June  3,  1837. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

At  leisure  until  Feb.  1858. 

Since  then  in  business  as  a  nurseryman  ;  firm, 
Edward  J.  Evans  &  Co.,  York,  Pa. 

DOUGLAS  FEENCH  FOEEEST. 

Born  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  Aug.  17,  1837. 

Entered  Sophomore,  from  Alexandria,  Va.,  Sept.  13,  1854. 

Studied  I^aw  at  home,  1857-58. 

Studied  Law  at  University  of  Virginia,  1858-60, 
Will  probably  practise  Law  in  Virginia. 
Address  :  Clermont,  near  Alexandria,  Va. 

HENEY   LUSE   FOWLES. 

Born  at  Kingston,  Miss.,  April  8,  1837. 

Entered  Sophomore,  Sept.  18,  1854. 

Engaged  in  teaching,  1857-61. 

Married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Bojd,  Sept.  20,  1859. 
Address  :  Kingston,  Adams  Co.,  Miss. 


64:  STATISTICS. 

SAMUEL   MARTUS"   FREELAND. 

Bom  in  Philadelphia,  Nov.  23,  1831. 

Entered  Junior,  Sept.  20,  1855. 

Principal  of  the  High  School  at  ISTashua,  IST.  H.,  Nov.  1858-60. 
Is  now  studying  Theology  at  Yale  Theol.  Sem. 

SIMEON    TAYLOR   EROST. 

Born  at  Pleasant  Yalley,  Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y.,  April  22,  1831. 

Entered  Junior,  Sept.  20,  1855. 
Principal    of    Lewis     Academy,    Southington, 

Conn.,  since  April,  1858. 
Married  to  Miss  Phebe  R.  Wheeler,  at  Yer- 

bank,  IST.  Y.,  Aug.  19,  1858. 

A  son,  Edward  Wheeler  Frost,  born  May  28,  1859. 

EDWARD   THURSTON    FULLER. 

Born  at  Stamford,  Conn.,  May  1,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

At  Princeton  Theological  Seminary,  Sept.  1858-July,  1859. 

He  died  at  his  father's  house,  at  Huntington, 

Long-Island,  Nov.  7,  1859. 

(See  Butler's  speech  at  the  Class-meeting.) 

AZARIAH   THOMAS    GALT. 

Born  in  Lancaster  Co.,  Pennsylvania,  Sept.  21,  1833. 

Entered  Freshman,  Jan.  9,  1854. 

Studied  Law,  and  admitted  to  practise  Law  in 

the    Courts  of  Illinois,    and  in  the    Circuit 

Court  of  the  United  States,  July  6,  1859. 

Firm,  Hervey,  Anthony  &  Gait,  77  Dearborn 

Street,  Chicago. 

JAMES    HENDERSON    GRANT. 

Born  in  New- York  City,  Jan.  8,  1838. 

Entered  Junior,  being  a  graduate  of  New-York 

Free  Academy,  Sept.  18,  1855. 

Business,  Note  Broker  &  Banker. 

Grant  &  Son,  62  Wall  Street,  New-York. 
Was  in  Europe,  June-Aug.  1860. 

GEORGE   SEAMAN   GRAY. 

Born  in  New-York  City,  July  10,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  Feb.  14,  1854. 


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65 


Studied  Theology  at  Auburn,  and  at  Union 
Theological  Seminary,  N.  Y.,  where  he  gra- 
duated, May,  1860. 

Licensed  to  preach  by  Presbytery  of  Cayuga,  May  4,  1859. 

Expectations  are  '  marig  eXntg  ayotTr?/.' 

JAMES    PAYNE    GREE?^.- 

Born  in  Jefferson  County,  Miss.,  Jan.  7,  1837. 
Entered  Sophomore,  -^"g-  9?  1854. 
Professor  of  Greek  and  Mathematics  in  Jeffer- 
son College,  Adams  Co.,  Miss.,  Oct.  1857-59. 
Opened  a  school,  Oct.  1859. 
Married  Miss  F.  S.  Wailes,  of  Adams  Co.,  Dec.  20,  1859. 
Address  :  Church  Hill,  Jefferson  Co.,  Miss. 

RICPIAED    HENRY    GREEN. 

Born  at  New-Haven,  Conn.,  Nov.  14,  1833.. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Is  teaching  at  Bennington  Seminary,  Benning- 
ton, Vermont. 

JOHN    GRISW^OLD. 

Born  at  Old  Lyme,  Conn.,  April  24,  1837. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14!,  1853. 

At  home  until  the  spring  of  1858. 

Surveying  in  Kansas  until  Dec.  1858. 

At  home  a  year  and  a  few  days,  1859. 

Sailed  from  IsTew-London  in  the  steam  schooner 

Kilauea  for  Honolulu,  J^an,.  3,.  1.860, . 

Address:    Care  of  James  Griswold,  Esq.,  Old 

Lyme,  Conn. ;  or,  Care  of  C.  A.  Williams  & 

Co.,  Honolulu,  Sandwich  Islands. 

JOSEPH   NEWTON   HALLOCK. 

Born  at  Franklinville,  L.  L,  July  4,  1832.. 

Was  three  years  in  the  Class  of  '56  at  Yale. 

Entered  '57  a  Senior,  Sept.  1856. 

At  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1857-59: 

Has  been  teaching  at  Franklinville. 


ALFREI>  HAND. 


Born  at  Hones  dale,  Pa., 
Entered  Freshman, 

5 


March  26,  1835. 
July  25,  1853. 


6o  STATISTICS. 

Studied  Law  in  the  office  of  W.  &  W.  H.  Jes- 
sup,  Montrose,  Pa. ;  also  for  a  time  was  Prin- 
cipal of  Susquehanna  Academy,  1 857-59. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar,  Xov.  21,  1859. 

Address:  Montrose,  Susquehanna  Co.,  Pa. 

VOLNEY    HICKOX. 

Born  at  Kutland,  Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  1,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  Jan.  7,  1854. 

"  Taught  school  in  Springfield,  111.,  six  months  ; 

then  read  Law  in  St.  Louis  nine  months  ;  was 

admitted  to  the  Bar  after  three  months ;  in 

the  Mayor's  Office,  Chicago,  four  months,  and 

finally,  July,  1859,  anchored  myself  at  home 

here  to  Blackstone." 
Address :  Springfield,  Illinois. 

EDWARD   WILLIAM    HITCHCOCK. 

Born  at  Homer,  Cortlandt  Co.,  Is^.  Y.,  May  1,  1833. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Studied  Theology  at  Auburn,  N".  Y.,  185'7-May,  1860. 

Ordained  Pastor  of  the  Reformed  Protestant 

Dutch   Church  at  Tompkins ville,  Richmond 

Co.,  (Staten  Island,)  IST.  Y.,  Aug.  8,  1860. 

Married  Miss  Eva  Hawley,  daughter  of  Isaac 

Hawley,  Esq.,  of  Homer,  N.  Y.,  July  19,  1860. 

LYMAN    DAVIS    HODGE. 

Born  at  Bufialo,  N".  Y.,  Nov.  1,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Studied  in  Law-office  of  Hon.  S.  G.  Haven,  at 

Buffalo,  Sept.  1857-Dec.  1859. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar,  Dec.  1,  1859. 

Is  practising  Law  in  Buffalo. 

LEVI    HOLBKOOK. 

Born  at  Westborougb,  Mass.,  March  7,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Was  at  Boston  about  a  year,  1857-58. 

Traveled,  with  the  desire  of  improving  the  con- 
dition of  his  eyes,  aci'oss  the  continent  to  the 

Columbia  and  back,  May-Nov.  1858. 


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Was  at  Dansville,  Virginia,  several  months,  1858-59. 

A  "  resident  graduate  "  at  Harvard  University 

since  v  Nov.  1859. 

Address,  for  the  present :  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Letters  to  Northboroiigh,  Mass.,  will  always  be 

forwarded  to  him. 

STEPHEN^   HOLDEK". 

Born  at  South-Hart  wick,  Otsego  Co.,  N".  Y.,  April  26,  1832. 

Entered  Junior,  Sept.  1855. 

Had  charge  of  the  Academy  at  Truman sburg, 

Tompkins  Co.,  N.  Y.,  for  a  year  from  Sept.  1859. 

Was  teacher  of  Latin  and  Mathematics  in  Dela- 
ware Literary  Institute,  Franklin,  N.  Y.,  1658-60. 

Expects  to  study  Law. 

JOHN   MILTON   HOLMES. 

Born  on  the  Isle  of  Sheppy,  near  the  mouth  of 

the  Thames,  England,  May  20,  1832, 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Chicago,  Illinois,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Teaching  at  Oak  Ridge,  Illinois,  Sept.  1857-ApriI,  1859. 

Studying  Theology  at  Andover,  Mass.,  since  May,  1859. 

JAMES    WAKEMAN   HUBBELL. 

Born  at  Wilton,  Conn.,  March  29,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1863, 

Teaching  at  Stamford,  and  then  at  Norwalk, 

Conn.,  1857-50. 

Studying  Theology  at  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary, Xew-York,  1859-60. 

Is  now  at  Andove!",  Mass. 

WILLIAM   EDWAED    HULBERT. 

Born  at  Middletown,  Conn.,  May  19,  1834. 

Entered  Sophomore,  having  been  in  the  Class 

of  1856,  May,  1855. 

Is  teaching  in  the  school  of  William  IL  Russell, 

Esq.,  E"ew-Haven,  Conn. 

HENRY    STRONG    HUNTINGTON. 

Born  in  E"ew-York  City,  July  15,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  IsTorwich,  Conn.,  July  25,  1853. 

Teaching  in  the  High-School  at  ISTorwalk,  Conn.,  1857-68. 


68 


STATISTICS. 


Teaching     in     Lawrence    Academy,     Groton, 

Mass.,  Nov.  185  8- June,  1859. 

At  An  clover  Theological  Seminary  since  Sept.  1859. 

SMITH    HARRIS    HYDE. 

Born  at  Yomigstown,  K.  Y.,  Sept.  28,  1834. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853, 

At  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  studying  Theology,  1857-1860. 

Is  stated  supply  of  a  Presbyterian  Church  at 
Rock  Hill,  St.  Louis  Co.,  Missouri. 

JOSEPH    COOKE   JACKSON. 

Born  at  N"ewark,  ^N".  J.,  Aug.  5,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

At  Newark,  studying  Law,  and  teaching,  Sept.  1857-Sept.  1858. 
At  the  University  Law  School  of  New- York,  Sept.  1858-1859. 
At  Harvard  Law  Schq,ol,  March,  1859-Feb.  1860. 

Admitted  to  Bar  of  New-York,  May  21,  1860. 

LL.B.     Univ.  Nov.  Ebor.  March,  1859. 

LL.B.     Harv.  July  18,  1860. 

Practising  Law.     Office,  48  Wall  street,  New- 
York  ;  but  resides  at  Newark,  N.  J. 


FRANKLIN    CHAPPELL   JONES. 

Born  at  New-London,  Conn., 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Southington,  Conn., 

Tutor  at  Beloit  College  a  year, 

At  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 

Since  then  at  Andover,  Mass. 

BELA   PECK   LEARNED. 

Born  at  Norwich,  Conn., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Engaged  a  while  in  studying  Law,  but  is  now  in 

an  Insurance  Office, 
Address :  Norwich,  Conn. 

JOSEPH   TAPLIN   LOVEWELL. 

Born  at  Corinth,  Vermont, 

Entered  Junior, 

Has  been  teaching  at  various  places  in  Con- 
necticut, Pennsylvania,  and  since  April,  1859, 
in  Wisconsin. 


March  20,  1837. 

July  25,  1853. 

1857-58. 

1858-59. 


March  9,  1837. 
July  25,  1853. 

1857-61. 


May  1,  1833, 
Sept.  18,  1855. 


STATISTICS. 

Reads  Law  when  he  can,  and  expects  to  practise 

it  eventually. 
ISTow  at  Prairie  du  Chien,  Wisconsin. 

HENRY   PORTER 

Born  at  North-Haven,  Conn.,  May  7,  1830. 

At  the  age  of  nine  years  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Franklin,  Dela- 
ware county,  N.  Y.  During  the  next  year  his  mother  died.  He  lived  with 
his  father,  being  mostly  engaged  upon  a  farm,  till  1849,  when  he  returned 
to  his  native  town,  and  was  engaged  in  a  lock-factory,  and  in  teaching,  for 
about  two  years. 

During  this  time,  under  the  preaching  of  Rev.  Mr.  Underwood,  he  united 
with  the  Congregational  Church  of  North-Haven. 

He  again  went  to  Franklin  in  1851,  and  entered  upon  his  preparation  for 
College.  Of  slender  frame,  without  means,  and  with  but  little  sympathy 
from  friends,  he  completed  his  preparatory  course,  and  in  September  of  1854 
entered  the  Sophomore  Class  of  Yale.  After  graduating  he  was  engaged  as 
teacher  of  Natural  Science  in  Delaware  Literary  Institute,  which  office  he 
filled  with  marked  success  till  his  last  illness. 

He  was  married  August  12,  1858,  to  Miss  C.  A.  Hobie,  of  Plymouth,  N.  H. 

He  had  bled  slightly  at  the  lungs  in  the  spring  of  1857,  but  during  his 
first  year  of  teaching  his  health  seemed  to  improve.  In  the  summer  of  1859 
the  bleeding  was  renewed  with  great  severity.  In  March,  1860,  he  was 
obliged  to  give  up  his  classes,  and  from  that  time  he  gradually  sank  till 
Wednesday,  July  25,  when  he  "  fell  asleep." 

As  a  man,  McCoy  was  cheerful,  generous,  and  willing  to  perform  his  full 
share  of  labor  and  of  public  burdens.  As  a  scholar,  he  was  an  enthusiastic 
student  in  the  wide  and  varied  fields  of  Physical  Science,  and  as  a  teacher 
he  was  successful. 

In  all  his  early  struggles-  his  aim  had  been  to  rise  to  the  honor  of  pro- 
claiming the  Gospel ;  but  the  failure  of  his  health  turned  him  aside  to  an- 
other sphere  of  activity.  He  longed  to  live  that  he  might  serve  his  genera- 
tion, but  he  submitted  without  murmuring  to  the  will  of  God.  As  he 
neared  his  end,  the  promises  of  Christ  rose  up  before  him  w^ith  such  vivid- 
ness and  glory  that  he  was  lifted  above  all  fear  of  death.  "  I  can  not  doubt 
his  promises,"  he  said,  and  in  this  happy  confidence  he  died.  (E.  Rogers.) 

JAMES    MARSHALL. 

Born  at  Grove,  Alleghany  Co.,  1^.  Y.,  Oct.  4, 1831. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  21,  1853. 

At  Syracuse,  NT.  Y.,  teaching  the  greater  part 

of  the  time,  and  studying  Theology,  1857-61. 

Expects  soon  to  go  to  Edinburgh  to  complete 

his  Theological  studies. 


70  STATISTICS. 

LEWIS    EMMOKS    MATSON. 

Born  at  Simsbury,  Coni}.,  Sept.  24,  1838- 

Entered  Sophomore,  from  Otsego,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  13,  1854. 

Teaching  at  Waverley,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  1857-sprmg  of  1858. 

At  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  since  Sept.  1858. 

ALMON   BAXTEK    MERWIN. 

Born  in  Brooklyn,  ]^.  Y.,  Jmie  27,  1835. 

Entered  Sophomore,  having  been  in  the  Class 

of  '56,  Sept.  14,  1854. 

Teaching,  and  at  Union  Theol.  Sem.,  N.  Y.,  1857-60. 

Is  now  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary. 

JOSEPH   LYMAN   MOKTON. 

Born  at  Hatfield,  Mass.,  Nov.  15,  1834. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  13,  1853. 

Has  studied  Law  in  Massachusetts,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Bar,  June  14,  1860. 
Admitted  to  the  New-York  Bar,  Nov.  1860. 
Practising  Law  at  No.  12  Wall  street,  New-York. 

GEOe'gE   AUGUSTUS   NOLEN. 

Born  at  Sutton,  Mass.,  Jan.  9,  1831. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Studying  in  the  Scientific  Department  of  Yale 

College,  and  teaching,  1857-July,  1860. 

Tutor  at  Yale  College  since  Sept.  1860. 

CYEUS   JfOETHEOP. 

Born  at  Ridgefield,  Conn.,  Sept.  30,  1836. 

Entered  third  term  Freshman  year,  having  been 

in  the  preceding  Class  a  few  months.  May  3,  1854. 

Studied  Law  in  New-Haven,  teaching  in  Hon. 

A.  N.  Skinner's  school  for  some  time,  1857-59. 

LL.B.     Yale,  July  28,  1859. 

Practises  Law  at  Nor  walk.  Conn. 

JONATHAN  EUGENE  PALMEE. 

Born  at  Bloomfield,  Conn.,  Oct.  2,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

Studied  Law  at  Hartford  and  New-Haven,  1857-59. 

Admitted  to  the  Hartford  County  Bar,  July,  1859. 
Is  now  in  Hartford,  Conn. 


STATISTICS. 


71 


NORMAN   CAROL  AN   PERKINS. 

Born  at  Pomfret,  Yt.,  April  17,  1832. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  ]853. 

Studied  Law  in  Chicago,  and  was  there  admit- 
ted to  the  Bar,  March  26,  1858. 
Address:  Chicago,  111. 

EDMUND   LEIGHTON   PORTER. 

Born  at  New-London,  Conn.,  June  17,  1837. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  13,  1853. 

Teaching  in  Virginia  six  months.  1857-58. 

Was  one  year  at  Yale  Law  School,  1858-59. 
Admitted  to  the  Bar  of  New-London  Co.,  Conn., 

HENRY   POWERS. 

Born  at  Hadley,  Mass., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Left  College  in  bad  health,  and  went  home, 

Received  the  degree  of  B.A.  from  Yale,  by 

special  vote  of  the  Corporation, 
Sailed  for  Europe,  about 
In  Germany,  mostly  at  Dresden,  until 
Travelling  in  Turkey  and  Asia  Minor  several 

months,  and  returned  to  the  United  States  in 

the  fall  of 
Studied  Theology  at  East- Windsor,  Conn.,  until 
Present  address :  Mittineague,  Hampden  Co.,  Mass. 


Aug.  1860. 


Dec.  28,  1833. 

Sept.  13,  1853. 

June,  1855. 

July  26,  1860. 

Sept.  1855. 

Spring,  1857. 


1857. 
July,  1860. 


GEORGE    PRATT. 

Born  at  East  Weymouth,  Mass.,  Oct.  12,  1832. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  13,  1853. 

Teaching  at  Blooming  Grove,  N.  Y.,  1857-58. 

Studied  Law  with  John  T.  Wait,  Esq.,  at  Nor- 
wich, Conn.,  1858-59. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Norwich,  April,  1859. 

Member  of  Connecticut  House  of  Representatives,  1860. 

Married  by  Rev.  Joseph  Brewster  to  Miss  Sarah 

Y.  Whittlesey,  at  Salem,  Conn.,  July  31,  1858. 

A  daughter,  Alice  M.  Pratt,  born,  Sept.  29,  1860. 

Address:  Norwich,  Conn. 


72 


STATISTICS. 


HENHY    CLEVELAND*  PRATT. 

Born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y., 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Hartford,  Conn., 

Studied  Law  in  the  office  of  Hon.  T.  C.  Perkins, 
at  Hartford,  Sept. 

Traveled  at  the  West, 

At  the  Law  School  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,       Sept, 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Boston, 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  of  ]N"ew-York, 
'  Formed  a  Law  partnership  with  F.  E.  Mather, 
Esq.,  of  the  Class  of  1833, 

LL.B.     Harv. 

Married  at  Hartford,  by  the  Rev.  Joel  Hawes, 
D.D.,  to  Miss  Kate  B.  Cowen,  daughter  of  the 
late  Sidney  J.  Cowen,  Esq.,  of  Albany,  N".  Y., 

A  daughter,  Kate  Cleveland  Pratt,  born 

Address:  Care  of  Mather  &  Pratt,  74  Broad- 
way, ISTew-York. 

LOUIS   EMILE   PEOFILET, 

Born  at  Natchez,  Miss., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Has  been  studying  Medicine  since 

Elected  a  Resident  Student  in  Charity  Hospital, 

I^ew-Orleans, 
Will  remain  there  a  few  months  longer,  and 

expects  then  to  practise  his  profession,  but 

has  not  yet  decided  where. 

GEOEGE   WASHINGTON   KOBEETS. 

Born  in  Chester  Co.,  Pa., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  in  West-Chester,  Pa., 

Practised  Law  there  until 

Since  then  he  has  been  in  Chicago,  in  E.  S. 
Smith  &  Co.'s  Collecting  Agency,  108  and 
110  Adams  street.     P.  O.  box  1793. 


Sept.  8, 
July  26, 

185  7- June, 
June-Sept. 

.  1858-Jan. 
March, 

May, 

June  1, 
July  ]  8, 


June  20, 
Feb.  24, 


Oct.  13, 

Aug.  3, 

Nov. 


1836. 
1853. 

1858. 
1858. 
1860. 
1859. 
1860. 

1860. 
1860. 


1860. 
1861. 


1834. 
1853. 

1857. 


April,  1859. 


Oct.  2,  1833. 

June  1,  1854. 

Dec.  1857. 

March  1,  1860. 


MICHAEL   WALLER    ROBINSON. 

Born  in  Callaway  Co.,  Missouri,  Oct.  13,  1837. 

Entered  Junior,  from  Georgetown  College,  Ky.,  Sept.  12,  1855. 
Adjunct  Professor  of  Greek  and  Latin  in  the 

Baptist  State  College  at  Liberty,  Mo.,  1857-60. 


STATISTICS. 


Since  then  studying  Law  at  the  Law  School  in 

Cambridge,  Mass. 
A  letter  sent  to  Fulton,  Missouri,  will  always 

reach  him. 

EDSOjS"  eogeks. 

Born  at  Whitney's  Point,  Broome,  Co.,  N.  Y., 
Entered  Junior, 

Teaching  in  Delaware  Lit.  Inst,  at  Franklin,  N.  Y. 
Has  been  for  two  years  or  more  at  Union  Theol. 

Sem.,  N".  Y., 
Married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Hyer,   daughter  of 

George  P.  Hyer,  Esq.,  of  Ravenswood,  L.  I., 
A  daughter,  Edith  Kogers,  born 
A  daughter,  Florence  Rogers,  born 

EDWIIS"   FRANCIS    SANDYS. 

Born  at  Lebanon  Springs,  N.  Y., 
Entered  Freshman,  from  Pittsfield,  Mass., 
Entered  Law-office  of  Rockwell  &  Colt,  Pittsfield, 
Has  also  been  teaching  in  Pittsfield,  and  since 
is  Principal  of  the  High  School  at  that  place. 
Expects  to  practise  Law. 

WILLIAM   HENEY    SAYARY. 

Born  at  Gi'OYeland,  Essex  Co.,  Mass., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Entered  the  Unitarian  Theological   Seminary, 

at  Cambridge  Mass., 
Completed  the  course  of  study  there. 
Is  now  a  Resident  Licentiate  at  Cambridge. 

SAMUEL    SCOYILLE. 

Born  at  West-Cornwall,  Conn., 

Entered  Freshman, 

At  home. 

At  Auburn  Theological  Seminary, 

At  Andover  Theological  Seminary, 

Sailed  for  Liverpool, 

Spent  most  of  his  time  in  Italy,  Germany,  and 

England.     Came  home. 
At  Union  Theological   Seminary,  [Rew-York, 

since 
Letters  may  be  sent  to  West- Cornwall,  Conn. 


May  22,  1833. 

Sept.  18,  1855. 

,  1857-58. 

1858-61. 

Aug.  12,  1857. 

March  12,  1858. 

Dec.  5,  1859. 


March,  1832. 

Sept.  14,  1853. 

May  1,  1858. 

Sept.  1860 


April  18,  1835. 
Sept.  14,  1853. 

Sept.  1857. 
July  18,  1860. 


Dec.  21,  1834. 

July  26,  1853. 

Aug.-Dec.  1857. 

Jan.-May,  1858. 

Sept.  1858-Aug.  1859. 

Aug.  5,  1859. 


Aug.  1860. 
Sept.  1860. 


74  STATISTICS. 

HENEY    MAUEICE    SEELY. 

Born  at  Honesclale,  Pa.,  Sept.  18,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept    13,  1853. 

Occupations  various,  principal  one  reading  Law,  1857-59. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  in  N'ew-York,  May  9,  1859. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  in  Pennsylvania,  Sept.  13,  1859. 
Practises  Law  in  New- York  City.     Office,  112 
Broadway. 

STOERS    OZIAS    SEYMOUE. 

Born  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  Jan.  24,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

After  graduation  he  spent  fourteen  months  in 

Europe,  and  smce  then  has  been    studying 

Theology  at  the  Berkeley  Divinity  School  at 

Middletown,  Conn. 

JAMES    JUDSON    SMITH. 

Born  in  Louisiana  in  1837.  (?) 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

Appeared  at  Class-meeting  looking  in  fine  health,        July  25,  1860. 

Has  not  given  the  compiler  of  this  book  any  ac- 
count of  himself,  but  is  supposed  to  be  en- 
gaged at  the  Law,  in  Clinton,  East-Feliciana 
Parish,  La. 

JOSEPH    LEDYAED    SMITH. 

Born  at  ^NTew-London,  Conn ,  March  4,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

"  Has  been  to  the  Arctic  Ocean  among  the  Es- 
quimaux ;  has  traveled  all  over  the  West ;  has 
been  a  Military  Engineer  in  Mexico,  and  may 
return  there  again." 

Has  studied  Law  in  the  office  of  A.  Converse, 
Esq.,  of  IsTew-London,  and  was  there  admit- 
ted to  the  Bar,  April,  1860. 

WILDEE    SMITH. 

Born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  July  17,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Albany,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Studied  Theology  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary,  1857-60. 

Licensed  to  preach.  Spring  of  1860. 
Is  now  a  Tutor  in  Yale  College. 


STATISTICS.  '  75 

WAEREN    KELLOGG   SOUTHWICK. 

Born  at  Troy,  I^.  Y.,  June  15,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853, 

Has  been  "  looking  for  the  Philosopher's  Stone." 
Expects  to  pursue  a  mercantile  life. 
Address  :  Troy,  1^.  Y. 

ISRAEL  SELDEN  SPENCEE. 

Born  at  Port  Gibson,  Claiborne  Co.,  Miss.,  March  23,  1837, 

Entered  Sophomore,  having  been  for  a  time  in 

the  preceding  Class,  Sept.  14,  1854, 

Is  engaged  in  Planting,  near  Skipwith's  Land- 
ing, Issaqueena  Co.,  Miss. 

AUGTJSTtrS    HOPKINS    STRONG. 

Born  at  Rochester,  I^.  Y.,  Aug.  3,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Studied  Theology  in  Rochester,  1857-59. 

Traveled  in  Europe,  May,  185 9- June,  1860. 

Returned  to  Rochester  in  summer  of  1860. 

GEORGE   BRINTON   THOMAS. 

Born  at  West-Chester,  Pa.,  July  5,  1836, 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853. 

At  home  until  April,  1858. 

In  Europe  until  Aug.  1859. 
Since  then,  traveling  in  the  United  States,  and 
at  home  at  West-Chester. 

WILLIAM   ARAD   THOMPSON. 

Born  at  Middleboro',  Mass., 

Entered  Freshman, 

Studied  Law  in  l^ew-Haven  and  Cambridge, 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Boston, 

LL.B.     Harv. 

Practises  Law  at  35  Court  street,  Boston. 

GEORGE   TUCKER. 

Born  in  Bermuda, 

Entered  Freshman, 

After  visiting  his  home  for  six  months,  he  pass- 
ed two  years  in  Newfoundland,  studying  The- 
ology with  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Field, 

Returned  to  Bermuda, 


June  21, 

1835. 

July  25, 

1853. 

1857-60. 

April, 

1860. 

July  18, 

1860. 

1837.  (?) 

July  26, 

1853. 

1858-60. 

1800. 

76  STATISTICS. 

Married  Miss  Theodosia  Trott,  of  Bermuda,  Jan.  31,  1861. 

Will  probably  be  a  clergyman  in  some  of  the 
British  Colonies. 

MOSES   TYLER. 

Born  at  Griswold,  Conn.,  Aug.  2,  1835. 

Entered  Fresbman,  from  Detroit,  Mich.,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Has  been  engaged  in  studying  Theology  at  New- 
Haven,  and  teaching,  and  preaching. 

Ordained  Pastor  of  a  Church  at  Owego,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  24,  1859. 

Went  to  Poughkeepsie  as  Pastor  of  the  First 

Congregational  Church,  Aug.  1,  1860. 

Married  Miss  Jennie  H.  Gilbert,  at  New-Haven,  Oct.  26,  1859. 

A  daughter,  Jessie  Gilbert  Tyler,  born  Aug.  9,  1860. 

MA:N'NI]SrG   CASE   WELLS. 

Born  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  21,  1837. 

Entered  Junior,  from  the  Class  of  1857  at  Am- 
herst, Sept.  1855. 

Teaching  school  and  studying  Law,  1857-60. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Mount  Sterling,  Ky.,  Feb.  1 860. 

Expects  to  practise  Law  in  St.  Louis,  or  at 
Mount  Sterling,  Montgomery  Co.,  Ky.,  to 
which  place  letters  may  be  directed. 

]S"ATHA]Sr    DANA    WELLS. 

Born  at  Northfield,  ISTew-Hampshire,  July  17,  1831. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Lawrence,  Mass.,  Nov.  22,  1853. 

In  New-Haven  and  New- York  until  spring  of  1858. 

Teaching  in  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass., 

and  studying  Law,  until  Aug.  1859. 

Since  then  in  New- York  City,  studying  and 
practising  Law  in  the  office  of  Judge  Emer- 
son. 

Admitted  to  Bar  of  New- York,  May,  1860. 

Address  :  8  Wall  street.  New- York. 

ARTHUR   MARTIN   WHEELER. 

Born  at  Weston,  Conn.,  Jan.  21,  1835. 

Entered  Freshman,  a  resident  of  Easton,  Conn.,        Sept.  14,  1853. 
Teaching  and  studying,  1857-1861. 

Expects  to  study  Theology. 
Address :  Easton,  Conn. 


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XATHAN   WILLEY. 

Born  at  South-Windsor,  Conn.,  Aug.  24,  1831. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Has  studied  Law.    Admitted  to  the  Bar  at  St. 

Paul,  Minnesota,  Oct.  1858, 

Was  at  St.  Paul  about  two  years,  but  his  health 

failing  him,  he  returned  to  Connecticut,  and 

is  now  a  reporter  for  the  J*ost,  at  Hartford. 

WILLIAM   BOYD   WILSON-. 

Born  at  Lewiston,  Mifflin  Co.,  Pa.,  Apiil  3,  1834. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853. 

W^as  connected  with  Eli  Thayer  in  founding 

Ceredo,  in  Wayne  Co.,  Ya. 
Started  the  Ceredo  Orescent.,  a  weekly  paper,  Oct.  1857. 

Was  editor  and  proprietor  until  Dec.  1869. 

Since  then  he  has  leased  the  press,  and  has  been 

engaged  in  Agriculture  on  the  Ohio  River 

near  Ceredo. 
Married  Miss  Sallie  L.  Waring,  of  Greenup  Co., 

Kentucky,  Jan.  10,  1860. 

Address  :  Ceredo,  Wayne  Co.,  Va, 

EPHEAIM   MORGAN   W^OOD. 

Born  at  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Jan.  24,  1838, 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 

Studied  Law  in  Cincinnati,  and  was  admitted  to 

the  Bar  in  the  spring  of  1860, 

Address  :   Care  of  Worthington   &  Matthews, 

Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

GEOEGE   MOERIS   WOODEUFF. 

Born  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  March  3,  1836. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  14,  1853. 

Studied  Law  at  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Litchfield,  Sept.  14,  1859. 

Married  Miss  Elizabeth  F.  Parsons,  daughter  of 
James  B.  Parsons,  Esq.,  of  Flushing,  Long- 
Island,  June  13,  1860. 

Address  :  Litchfield,  Connecticut. 


SUMMARY 


OF   THE 


STATISTICS    OF    GRADUATES. 


I.  PLACE  OF  BIRTH. 


Connecticut. — Beard,  Beardsleyf,  Blackman,  Blake,  Butler,  Case,  Chamberlin, 
Cone,  Day,  Douglass,  Drake,  Dutton,  Fuller,  R.  H.  Green,  Grisvvold,  Hallock, 
Hubbell,  Hulbert,  Jones,  Learned,  McCoy,  Matson,  Northrop,  Palmer,  Porter, 
Scoville,  Seymour,  J.  L.  Smith,  Tyler,  Wheeler,  Willey,  Woodruff.— 32. 

New- York. — Bradish,  Bradner,  DeForest,  Dodge,  Dye,  Edwards,  Frost,  Grant, 
Gray,  Hickox,  Hitchcock,  Hodge,  Holden,  Huntington,  Hyde,  Marshall,  Merwin, 
H.  C.  Pratt,  Rogers,  Sandys,  Southwick,  Strong,  M.  C.  Wells.— 23. 

Pennsylvania. — Avery,  Barge,  Christman,  Church,  Doster,  Evans,  Freeland, 
Gait,  Hand,  Roberts,  Seely,  Thomas,  Wilson  — 13. 

Massachusetts. — Allen,  Barrows,  Belden,  Buckland,  Holbrook,  Morton,  Nolen, 
Powers,  G.  Pratt,  Savary,  W.  Smith,  Thompson. — 12. 

Ohio. — ^Adams,  Brown,  Burnet,  Wood. — 4. 

Mississippi. — Foules,  J.  P.  Green,  Pro  filet,  Spencer. — 4, 

Louisiana. — Colles,  Estilettef,  J.  J.  Smith. — 3. 

Vermont. — Lovewell,  Perkins. — 2. 

New- Jersey. — Duer,  Jackson. — 2. 

Missouri. — ^Beckf,  Robinson. — 2. 

New-Hampshire. — N.  D.  Wells. — 1. 

Michigan. — Eaton. — 1 . 

Maryland. — Forrest. — ] . 

Kentucky. — Croxton. — 1. 

South  Carolina. — Doar. — 1. 

England. — Holmes. — 1 . 

Befmuda. — Tucker. — 1. 

Sandwich  Islands. — Bald w in. — 1. 

• 
*  t  Not  known  with  certainty. 


STATISTICS.  79 


11.  TIME  OF  BIRTH. 

1825.— Butler.— 1. 

1828.— Dye.— 1. 

1830.— McCoy.— 1. 

1831. — Avery,  Baldwin,  Freeland,  Frost,  MaistalJ,  Nolen,  N.  D.  Wellg, 
Willey.— 8. 

1832. — Adams,  Barge,  Bradish,  Hallock,  Holden,  Holmes,  Perkins,  PoM^ere, 
G.  Pratt,  Sandys.— 10. 

1833. — Beard,  DeForest,  R.  H.  GTreen,  Hitchcock,  J.  T.  Lovewell,  Roberts, 
Rogers. — T. 

1834. — Barrows,  Douglass,  Eaton,  Hulbert,  Hyde,  Morton,  Profilet,  Scoville, 
Wilson.— 9. 

1835. — Beckf,  Buckland,  Day,  Drake,  Edwards,  Fuller,  Gray,  Hand,  Hodge, 
Hubbell,  Jackson,  Merwin,  Palmer,  Savary,  Seely,  W.  Smith,  Souihwick,  Thomp- 
son, Tyler,  Wheeler.— 20. 

1836. — Allen,  Beardsleyf,  Belden,  Blake,  Bradner,  Brown,  Case,  Chamberlin, 
Christman,  Cone,  Croxton,  Dodge,  Duer,  Hickox,  Holbrook,  Huntington,  Nor- 
throp, H.  0.  Pratt,  Seymour,  J.  L.  Smith,  Strong,  Thomas,  Woodruff. — 23. 

1831. — Blackman,  Buruet,  Colles,  Doster,  Evans,  Forrest,  Foules,  J.  P.  Green, 
Griswold,  Jones,  Learned,  Porter,  Robinson,  J.  J.  Smithf,  Spencer,  Tuckerf,  M. 
C.  Wells.— 17. 

1838.— Church,  Doar,  Button,  Grant,  Matson,  Wood.— 6. 

Unknown. — Bstilette. 

The  aggregate  age  of  the  Class  at  graduation,  was  about  2360  years. 

The  average  age  of  the  Class  at  graduation,  was  22  years,  5  months,  and  20 
days,  almost  exactly  the  age  of  Drake,  who  vfas  born  the  21st  day  of  February, 
1835. 

The  youngest  graduate  member  was  Matson,  born  Sept.  24.  1838,  Fowler,  who 
died,  was  eight  months  younger  than  be. 

III.  PROFESSIONS. 

Theology. — Beard,  Butler,  DeForest,  Dodge,  Douglass,  Dye,  Freeland,  Gray, 
Hallock,  Hitcftcoclc,  Holmes,  Hubbell,  Huntington,  Hyde,  Jones,  Marshall,  Matson, 
Merwin,  Powers,  Rogers,  Savary,  Scoville,  Seymour,  W.  Smith,  Strong,  Tucker, 
Tijler,  Wheeler.— 28. 

Ordained  Clergymen,  {in  italics?) — 4. 

Law. — Adams,  Allen,  Avery,  Belden,  Buckland  Burnet,  Case,  Colles,  Croxton, 
Day,  Doster,  Drake,  Dutton,  Edwards,  Estilette,  Forest,  Gait,  Hand,  Hickox, 
Hodge,  Holden,  Jackson,  Lovewell,  Morton,  Northrop,  Palmer,  Perkins,  Porter, 
G.  Pratt,  H.  C.  Pratt,  Roberts,  Robinson,  Sandys,  Seely,  J,  J.  Smith,  J.  L.  Smith, 
Thomas,  Thompson,  M.  C.  Wells,  N.  D.  Wells,  Willey,  Wood,  Woodruff.— 43, 

Medicine. — Duer,  Doar,  Profilet. — 3. 

Teaching. — Baldwin,  Barge,  Bradish,  Chamberlin,  Christman,  Foules,  Frost, 
J.  P.  Green,  R.  H.  Green,  Hulbert,  Nolen.— 11. 

History  and  Literature. — Holbrook. — 1, 

Natural  History. — Eaton. — 1. 

Art. — Cone. — 1. 

Agriculture. — Evans,  Spencer,  Wilson.^ — 3, 


80  STATISTICS. 

Manufactures.— Barrows,  Blake. — 2. 

Mining. — Beck, — 1, 

Mercantile  Pursuits. — Blackman,  Brown,  Giiswold,  Learned,  Southwlck. — 5. 

Banking. — G-rant. — 1. 

Railways.  — B  radner. — 1 . 

UnJmoivn. — Beardsley. — 1. 

lY.   MARRIED. 

In  1857. — Rogers,  Estilette,  Baldwin. 
In  1858.— G-.  Pratt,  McCoy,  Erost,  Bradish. 
In  1859.— Tyler,  Dye,  Eoules,  J.  P.  Green. 

In  I860.— Wilson,  Beck,  Blake,  Blackman,  Croxton,  Woodruff;  Dodge,  PI.  C. 
Pratt,  Hitchcock,  Brown. 


In  1861.— Tucker.— 22. 


Y.  DECEASED. 


Church,  Fuller,  McCoj^— 3. 

Mrs.  S.  J.  Bradish  died  at  Meriden,  Nov.  1,  1859. 


YI.  CHILDREN. 


{In  Order  of  ^^e.)— Edith  Rogers,  EDMOND  D.  ESTILETTE,  Lihan  C.  Baldwin , 
Edward  W.  Erost,  Erdman  D.  Baldwin,  EJorence  Rogers,  Julia  B.  Estilette,  Oliver 
W.  Dye,  Jessie  G.  Tyler,  Alice  M.  Pratt,  Henry  R.  Croxton,  Kate  C.  Pratt.— 12. 


YII.  MASTERS  OP  ARTS. 

At  Yale  in  1860. — Adams,  Allen,  Barrows,  Beard,  Bradish,  Brown,  Butler,  Cone, 
DeForest,  Doar,  Dye,  Eaton,  Edwards,  Evans,  Forest,  Freeland,  Frost,  Gait, 
Hallock,  Hickox,  Hitchcock,  Holbrook,  Hubbell,  Hulbert,  Huntington,  Jackson, 
Jones,  Marshall,  Merwin,  Nolen,  Perkins,  H.  C.  Pratt,  Roberts,  Rogers,  Seymour, 
J.  J.  Smith,  W.  Smith,  Thomas,  M.  C.  Wells,  Woodruff.— 40. 


YIII.  TOTAL. 

Graduated  at  Yale  in  1851, 104 

Afterward  received  his  Degree,  and  is  numbered  with  the  Class, 1 

Graduated  at  Yale  in  1858, 12 

"          "      "     "1859, 1 

"          '«      '•     ''•   1860, 1 

Graduated  in  Arts  elsewhere, 14 

Others  not  graduated  in  Arts, 49 

Names  omitted  by  request, 3 


Grand  total, 18 


RECORD 


WHO  LEFT  THE  CLASS  WITHOUT  GRADUATmG. 


LUCIEN   HARPER  ADAMS. 


Born  at  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  in  1829.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  13, 1853.  Left,  Oct.  6,  1853.  Graduated  at  Dartmouth,  1858. 
Is  at  Andover,  Mass.,  studying  Theology. 

JAMES   HESSE   J.    ANDREWS. 

Entered  Freshman  from  Orangeburgh,  S.  C,  Sept.  14,  1853. 
Left,  Dec.  20,  1853. 

FRANK   RUSSELL   AVERY. 

Entered  Freshman  from  Cincinnati,  Sept.  14, 1853.  Left,  April, 
1854.  Married  Miss  Louisa  Stanbury,  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  185  i 
or  '55.     Has  resided  in  Cincinnati,  but  is  at  present  in  Europe. 

BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN   BAKER. 

Entered  Freshman  May,  1854.  Left,  Oct.  1854.  Was  for  a  time 
in  business  with  Bliss,  Wheelock  &  Kelly,  390  Broadway,  N'ew- 
York.  Is  now  a  broker  in  N^ew-York.  Firm :  Bruce,  Hunting- 
ton &  Baker,  21  IRassau  street. 

EDWARD   HUNTTING    BEDFORD. 

Born  at  Glenham,  Dutchess  Co.,  I^.  Y.,  July  14,  1835.  Left 
June  1,  1854.  Married  Miss  Anna,  daughter  of  Rev.  John  H. 
Bavier,  Oct.  13, 1859.    Is  engaged  in  farming  at  his  native  village. 

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82  STATISTICS. 

WILLIAM    COMSTOCK   BENNETT. 

Born  at  Bethel,  Conn.,  1836.  Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853. 
Left,  Dec.  20,  1853.  Graduated  with  the  Class  of  1858.  Is  now 
practising  Medicine  at  Danbuiy,  Conn. 

JAMES    BAILEY   BEVERIDGE. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  ]Srewburgh,  IST.  Y.,  July  25,  1853.  Left, 
July,  1855.  Went  to  Union  College,  but  did  not  graduate.  Is 
now  practising  Law  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

WILLIAM    HARRISON   BISHOP. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Kingswood,  Preston  Co.,  Va.,  Sept. 
20,  1853.     Left,  Sept.  or  Oct.  1854. 

WARFIELD   TURNER    BROWNING. 

Born  at  Washington,  D.  C,  Feb.  4,  1837.  Entered  Freshman, 
Jan.  9,  1854.  Left  in  the  spring  of  1855,  and  was  two  years  at 
Princeton.  Studied  Law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Balti- 
more in  April,  1859.  Married  Miss  Lina  Cinnamond,  of  Baltimore, 
April  1,  1859.  Address  :  Care  of  Cinnamond  &  Browning,  Attor- 
neys-at-Law,  Baltimore,  Md. 

BENJAMIN  PLATT  CARPENTER. 

Born  at  Stanford,  Dutchess  Co.,  'N.  Y.,  May  14, 1837.  Entered 
Freshman,  from  Poughkeepsie,  Sept.  14,  1853.  Left,  June  21, 1854. 
Graduated  at  Union  College,  July,  1857.  Studied  Law,  and  was 
admitted  to  I^ew-York  State  Bar,  May  14,  1858.  Appointed  Dis- 
trict-Attorney, for  three  years,  l^ov.  2,  1858.  Address:  Pough- 
keepsie, Dutchess  Co.,  ^.  Y. 

EDWARD    MARTIN    CHAMBERLIN. 

Born  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  l^ov.  7,  1835.  Entered  Freshman, 
May  3,  1854.  Left  in  the  summer  of  1855.  Has  studied  Law,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Chicago,  Nov.  1856.  Expects  to 
practise  Law  at  Boston,  Mass.,  where  he  now  is. 

WALTER   COLTON. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  13,  1853.  Left, 
in  the  summer  of  1854. 

THOMAS   TAYLOR   CROMMELIN. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Montgomery,  Ala.,  Nov.  18,  1853. 
Left,  Dec.  5,  1853. 


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EUGENE  CRUGEE. 


Born  in  Westchester  Co.,  N".  Y.,  June  1,  1836.  Entered  Fresh- 
man, July  26,  1853.  Left,  Dec.  6,  1853.  Has  since  been  engaged 
in  mercantile  pursuits.  Married  Miss  Caroline  M.  Sheppard,  Feb. 
14,  1857.  A  son,  Bertram  Cruger,  born  March  30,  1858  ;  a  sec- 
ond son,  Eugene  Cruger,  born  Nov.  19,  1860.  Address  :  Crugers, 
Westchester  Co.,  ¥.  Y. 

TEMPLE   CUTLER. 

Born  at  Lynn,  Mass.,  May  4,  1829.  Entered  Freshman,  July 
25,  1853.  Left,  July,  1854.  Graduated  at  Marietta  College  in 
1857.     Is  now  at  Andover,  studying  Theology. 

JONAH   DURWARD    DECKER. 

Born  in  Orange  Co.,  IST.  Y.,  June  21,  1836.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  25,  1853.  Left,  Nov.  4,  1854.  Admitted  to  the  New- York 
State  Bar,  June,  1859.  Married  Miss  Emily  Palmer,  of  Brock- 
port,  N.  Y.,  July,  1860.  Is  practising  Law  at  Brockport,  Monroe 
County,  N.  Y. 

JOHN    HENDERSON   DORRISS. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Platte  City,  Mo.,  having  been  in  the 
Class  of  1856,  Sept.  15, 1853.  Left,  March,  1854.  Is  supposed  to 
have  died  in  Missouri  in  1855  or  ^56. 

JOHN  JACOB   DOUGHTY. 

Born  in  Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y.,  July  16,  1837.  Entered  Sopho- 
more, Sept.  13,  1854.  Left,  Feb.  20, 1855.  Entered  WiUiams  Col- 
lege May  23,  1855,  and  graduated  there  in  1857.  Has  studied 
Law.  Was  admitted  to  the  Bar  at  Newburgh,  N.  Y.,  SejDt.  15, 
1858;  in  Illinois,  Jan.  1859.  Practised  Law  in  Chicago  nearly  a 
year,  but  his  health  being  poor  he  returned  to  Poughkeepsie. 

PIAMILTON   SCOTT   EASTER. 

Born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  Nov.  12,  1836.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  13,  1853.  Left,  April  3,  1854.  Died  of  congestion  of  the 
lungs,  at  Baltimore,  Dec.  22,  1858. 

A  letter  from  his  father  says  :  "After  leaving  College  he  entered  the  Dry 
Goods  house  of  Hamilton,  Easter  &  Co.  as  clerk,  and  on  the  first  of  Febru- 
ary preceding  his  death,  he  was  admitted  as  a  partner  in  said  firm.  Had  it 
pleased  God  to  spare  his  life,  I  have  no  doubt  he  would  have  made  his  mark 


84  STATISTICS. 

in  the  community  as  an  active,  energetic  business  man.  Nearly  a  year  pre- 
vious to  his  death  he  became  a  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of 
this  city,  under  the  pastoral  care  of  Rev.  John  0.  Backus,  D.D."  A  schol- 
arship bearing  his  name  has  been  founded  with  the  profits  in  business  accru- 
ing to  him,  in  the  Western  Theological  Seminary,  at  Alleghany  City,  Pa. 

BENJAMIN   LAW   FOESTEE. 

Born  at  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  Aug.  29,  1834.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  26,  1853.  Left,  Dec.  16,  1853.  Studied  Law,  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  Bar,  Jan.  21,  1858.  Is  practising  Law  at  his  native 
place. 

SEYMOUE   FOWLEE. 

Born  at  Newburgh,  N".  Y.,  May  24,  1839.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  14,  1853. 

His  health  became  poor  while  in  College,  and  his  parents  removed  him  in 
July,  1854.  He  went  to  a  Water-Cure  in  Massachusetts,  and  stayed  there 
several  months,  when  his  health  was  apparently  restored,  and  he  entered  a 
Bank  in  the  City  of  New- York,  where  he  remained  over  three  years,  giving 
satisfaction  to  the  officers  of  the  institution,  and  winning  their  confidence 
and  friendship.  In  the  summer  of  1857  he  w^as  seized  with  cerebral  typhoid 
fever,  brought  on,  it  is  supposed,  by  excessive  application  to  his  duties  in 
the  hot  weather,  and  after  six  days  of  delirium  he  passed  aw^ay,  July  24, 
1857.  His  last  resting-place,  in  the  cemetery  at  Newburgh,  is  marked  by  a 
broken  column  bearing  his  name  and  age.  Fowler  showed  a  love  of  study 
from  a  very  early  age.  Even  before  he  understood  the  relations  of  Property 
he  would  help  himself  from  the  village  bookstore.  In  the  later  years  of  his 
life  he  employed  all  his  leisure  hours  in  useful  reading.  The  articles  on 
Lord  Clive  and  Warren  Hastings  in  Macaulay's  Essays  were  the  last  things 
he  read  before  his  final  illness.  His  memory  was  remarkable,  seldom  re- 
linquishing what  he  read  or  saw,  and  his  mind  became  a  wonderful  repos- 
itory of  facts,  anecdotes,  etc.,  that  always  enlivened  his  conversation.  He 
was  amiable  and  cheerful,  industrious  and  faithful,  the  admiration  of  his 
friends,  and  greatly  beloved  by  his  parents.  He  was  the  youngest  of  all 
who  were  numbered  in  our  Class,  and  of  those  who  continued  with  us  any 
time  he  was  the  first  to  die. 

CHARLES    PHINEAS   FEEELAND. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  ISTew-York  City,  July  25,  1853.  Left, 
Dec.  20,  1853.  Was  in  business  in  New- York  several  years,  but 
is  now  pursuing  his  studies  on  Long  Island. 


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WILLIAM   HENEY    GIBBS. 


Entered  Freshman,  from  Ohio,  Sept.  14,  1853.     Left,  Nov.  27, 
1854. 


EDWARD    DEOMGOOLE   GRANT. 


Born  in  Virginia,  Feb.  12,  1836.  Entered  Freshman,  July  26, 
1853.  Left,  ISTov.  27. 1854.  Graduated  with  the  Class  of  1858.  Is 
practising  Law  in  Chicago,  Illinois. 


GEORGE   NELSON   GREENE. 

Born  at  Plainfield,  (?)  Conn.,  about  the  year  1829.  Entered 
Freshman,  July  25, 1853.  Left,  Jan.  1854.  Graduated  in  the  Class 
of  1860.     Expects  to  preach. 

EDGAR   LAING    HEERMANCE. 

Born  in  New- York  City,  April  30,  1833.  Entered  Sophomore, 
Sept.  13,  1854.  Left  College  to  travel  abroad,  June  15,  1856. 
Was  in  various  parts  of  Europe  a  year,  1856-57.  Returned  to 
enter  the  next  Class,  and  graduated  at  Yale  in  1858.  Studied  at 
Yale  Theological  Seminary  two  years,  1858-60.  Is  now  at  Ando- 
ver.  Licensed  to  preach  the  Gospel,  New-Haven,  May  or  June, 
1860.     Address  :  Kind erhook,  N.  Y. 

WILLIAM   DODGE   HERRICK. 

Born  at  Methuen,  Mass.,  March  26,  1831.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  25,  1853.  Left,  June  16,  1854.  Graduated  at  Amherst  in 
1857.  Studied  Theology  at  Andover  two  years  and  a  half.  Or- 
dained and  settled  in  charge  of  the  Congregational  Church  at  Red- 
ding, Conn.,  Jan.  18,  1860.  Married  Miss  Josephine  H.  Burton, 
of  Orange,  Mass.,  July  30,  1859. 

EDWARD   HAYES. 

Born  in  Vermont  in  1836-37.  Entered  Freshman,  Oct.  13, 
1853.  Left,  Feb.  20,  1855.  Is  believed  to  be  living  at  Benning- 
ton, Vt. 

CHARLES  HENRY  HUBBARD. 

Born  at  Bloomfield,  Conn.,  July  31,  1836.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  14,  1853.  Left,  Feb.  1854.  Graduated  in  the  Medical  De- 
partment of  Yale,^Jan.  1860.  Is  practising  Medicine  in  Essex, 
Conn. 


86  STATISTICS. 


HORACE   WHITE    HUBBAED. 


Born  at  Hatfield,  Mass.,  March  22,  1835.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  14,  1853.  Left,  May  or  June,  1855.  Was  in  I^ew-Haven  two 
years  ;  at  Hatfield  two  years  ;  and  since  Aug.  1859,  is  in  the  Dry 
Goods  Importing  House  of  Bliss,  Wheelock  &  Kelly,  390  Broad- 


way, New- York. 


EDWAED    JANII^. 


Born  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  July  16,  1836.  Entered  Sophomore, 
from  the  University  of  Louisiana,  Sept.  13,  1854.  Left,  April,  1856. 
Traveled  a  year  in  Europe,  and  returned  to  study  Law  in  New- 
Orleans,  where  he  graduated  at  the  Law  School,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  Bar.  In  the  autumn  of  1859  he  went  to  San  Francisco, 
Cal.,  where  he  now  practises  his  profession. 

CHARLES  NAPOLEON  JOHNSON. 

Born  in  Connecticut  about  the  year  1830.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  25,  1853.  Left,  Oct.  24,  1853.  Graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1858.  Studied  Law  at  the  Yale  Law  School,  and  will  probably 
practise  in  Connecticut. 

CHAUNCEY    SEYMOUR   KELLOGG. 

Born  at  Woodville,  Miss.,  Sept.  12,  1837.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  25, 1853.  Left,  Dec.  1853.  Graduated  with  the  Class  of  1858. 
Engaged  in  planting  near  Woodville,  Miss. 

JOHN   LOVEWELL. 

Born  at  Corinth,  Vt.,  Sept.  1,  1829.  Entered  Sophomore,  Sept. 
18,  1854.  Left,  Jan.  26,  1855.  Graduated  with  the  Class  of  1858. 
Engaged  in  teaching  in  Wisconsin.      Is  now  at  Prairie  du  Lao, 

Wis. 

CHARLES  HENRY  LUZENBERG. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853.  Left,  March  29, 1854.  Wont 
to  Princeton,  and  graduated  in  1857.  Has  studied  Theology. 
{(licitiir.) 

DENNIS   BRUCE    LYLES. 

lOiitercd  Sophomore,  from  Prince  George's  Co.,  jMaryland.  Loft, 
in  Junior  year. 

.lOn.N     I-KONIDAS    .M«'MII,I,AN. 

Kntcrcd  Freshman,  from  Elizabethtown,  N.  C.,  So[)t.  11,  1853. 
Left,  Nov.  21,  1853. 


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THOMAS    CKAWFOED    MCNEILL. 

Born  at  Hico,  Comal  Co.,  Tenn.,  1832  "or  1833.  Entered  Fresh- 
man, Sept.  14,  1853.  Left  in  the  third  term  of  Freshman  year. 
Graduated  at  the  University  of  Michigan  in  1857.  At  University 
of  Michigan,  attending  Medical  lectures  and  studying  Chemistry 
and  Natural  History  until  Sept.  1858.  Appointed  Professor  of 
Chemistry  and  Natural  History  in  Andrew  College,  Trenton, 
Tenn.,  but  after  a  few  months  resigned,  and  went  in  Sept.  1859  to 
attend  Medical  lectures  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  where 
he  graduated  in  March,  'I860.  Is  practising  medicine  at  Paris, 
Tenn. 

DANIEL   WEBSTER    MANCHESTER. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853.  Left,  Dec.  16,  1853.  Is 
practising  Law  in  Chicago. 

MILTON    SHELDON   MANCHESTER. 

Born  in  New- York  City,  Sept.  26,  1835.  Entered  Freshman, 
from  Cincinnati,  July  25, 1853.  Left,  Sept.  1855.  Studied  Law  at 
Yale  Law  School  a  year,  1855-56.  Admitted  to  practise  Law  in 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois,  Feb.  1,  1858.  Address  :  Chicago, 
Illinois. 

FRANCIS  LE  BARON  MONROE. 

EnteredFreshman,  Sept  14,  1853.  Left,  July,  1855.  Graduated 
at  Williams  College  in  1857.  Studied  Medicine  near  Boston,  and 
is  now  practising  in  that  vicinity. 

WILLIAM    STUART    MOORE. 

Born  at  Weston,  Conn.,  Aug.  17,  1829.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  14,  1853.  Left,  March,  1855.  Studied  Law  in  New-Haven  a 
year  or  more.     Is  practising  Law  at  Sauk  Rapids,  Minn. 

CORNELIUS   EDWARDS    MOSS, 

Entered  Sophomore,  from  Marion  Co.,  Missouri,  Oct.  18,  1854., 
Left  March  20,  1855. 

SIDNEY   ASH    MOULTHROP. 

Born  at  Orange,  Conn.,  Jan.  10,  1833.  Entered  Freshman, 
having  been  in  the  Class  of  1856,  Sept.  14,  1853.  Left,  May  5., 
1854.  Has  been  in  the  office  of  the  Town  Clerk  at  New-Haven  ; 
has  been  teaching  Music,  and  has  since  then  studied  Law,  and 
expects  to  practise  in  Connecticut. 


88  STATISTICS. 

GABEIEL  ALFKED  MUELLEE. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Erie  Co.,  N".  Y.,  Sept.  13,  1853.  Left, 
second  term  Junior  year.  Has  charge  of  a  school  at  Williamsville, 
Erie  Co.,  K  Y. 

WILLIAM    HOSKINS   MULLINS. 

Born  in  Garrard  Co.,  Ky.,  Sept.  5,  1835.  Entered  Freshman, 
Oct.  18,  1853.  Left,  at  some  time  in  Sophomore  year.  Graduated 
in  the  Medical  Department  of  the  University  at  LouisYille,  Ky., 
in  the  spring  of  1858.  Has  never  been  married,  although  he  is  a 
strong  Union  man.  Is  practising  Medicine,  with  good  prospects  of 
success,  at  Richmond,  Madison  Co.,  Ky. 

CHAELES   CLINTON-   NICHOLS. 

Born  at  Buffalo,  IST.  Y.,  May  11,  1836.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  25,  1853.  Left,  June  24,  1854.  Is  in  a  Hardware  store  at 
Buffalo. 

JAMES   MOSES   NICHOLS. 

Born  at  Haverhill,  Mass.,  July  23,  1835.  Entered  Freshman, 
Jan.  5,  1854.    Left,  July,  1854.    Graduated  at  Williams  College  in 

1857.  In  business  in  Xew-Yorli  and  Boston.     Address:  Haver- 
hill, Mass. 

HOWAED   JONAS   PL  ATT. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  25,  1853.     Left,  ISTov.  3,  1853. 

DAVID    GUSTAVtJS   POETEE. 

Born  at  Waterbury,  Conn.,  March  8,  1833.  Entered  Fresh- 
man, July  26,  1853.  Left,  in  poor  health,  March,  1856.  His 
health  has  not  been  good.  He  is  living  quietly  at  Waterbury, 
reading  and  studying  when  he  can  do  so. 

DANIEL   TEETIUS   POTTEE. 

Born  at  Plymouth,  Conn.,  in  1829  or  1830.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  13,  1853.     Left,  Dec.  6,  1853.     Graduated  with  the  Class  of 

1858.  Is  teaching  near  Hartford,  Conn. 

EZEA   POST   PEATT. 

Born  at  Durham,  N".  Y.,  Oct.  29,  1831.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  26,  1853.  Left,  Jan.  9,  1854.  Engaged  in  farming  at  Oak 
Hills,  Green  Co.,  N.  Y.  Married  Miss  Lucina  E.  Penfield  at  Oak 
Hills,  Sept.  16,  1857.  A  son,  Abijah  Penfield  Pratt,  born  Nov. 
29,  1859. 


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CHARLES   FREDEEICK   PUMPELLY. 

Entered  Freshman,  July  26,  1853.  Left,  Sophomore  year,  and 
graduated  with  the  Class  of  1858.  Engaged  in  farming  at  Owe- 
go,N.Y. 

JULIEN   TERRELL    RA]S"SONE. 

Entered  Freshman,  having  "been  in  the  preceding  Class,  Sept. 
15,  1853.  Left  in  Junior  year.  Besides  in  Blakely,  Early  Co.,  Ga., 
and  goes  to  N"ew-York  every  summer,  stopping  at  the  St.  Nicholas. 

JAMES    BAILEY   RICHARDSON. 

Born  at  Orford,  IsT.  H.,  Dec.  9,  1832.  Entered  Freshman,  Sept. 
14,  1853.  Left,  Dec.  1,  1853.  Went  to  Dartmouth  in  the  spring  of 
1854,  and  there  graduated  in  1857.  Bead  Law  a  year  at  Concord, 
Mass.'  Went  to  Boston  in  1858,  and  after  eight  months  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Suffolk  Bar.  Practises  Law  in  Boston  :  office  at 
20  Court  Street. 

EBEJS"   GREENOUGH    SCOIT. 

Born  at  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  June  15,  1836.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  25, 1853.  Left,  March  29,  1854.  Graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1858.     Is  studying  Law.     Address  :  Sunbury,  Pa. 

JOHN    ORTH    SCHCENER. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Beading,  Pa.,  Sept.  13,  1853.  Left, 
Dec.  1853. 

JOHN    SCHULTES    SEIBOLD. 

Born  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  15,  1835.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  29,  1853.  Left  at  the  end  of  Sophomore  year.  Engaged  for 
a  while  in  farming,  and  then  studied  Law  in  Indiana.  Is  now  in 
business  (tanning)  in  Buffalo.  Married  Miss  Adele  Graves, 
daughter  of  John  S.  Graves,  Esq.,  of  New-Haven,  July  13,  1859. 
A  daughter,  Julia  Adele  Seibold,  born  May  3,  1860. 

ROBERT   GILL   SIMS. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Woodville,  Mississippi,  June  5,  1854. 
Left,  July  20,  1858.  Entered  the  Class  of  1858,  but  did  not  gradu- 
ate.   Is  now  at  Stigo,  Miss.,  in  a  New-Orleans  Commission  House. 


00  STATISTICS. 


CHARLES    HENKY    SLATE. 

Born  in  ]^ew-York  City,  Aug.  12,  1837.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  26,  1853.  Left,  March  22,  1854.  Has  been  for  five  years  in 
the  Shipping  business,  at  115  South  street,  ISTevv-York, 

BEINLEY    DERING    SLEIGHT, 

Born  at  Sag  Harbor,  Long  Island,  March,  1835.  Entered 
Freshman,  Nov.  12,  1853.  Left,  March  22, 1854.  Graduated  with 
the  Class  of  1858.  Was  a  delegate  to  the  American  State  Con- 
vention at  Syracuse,  Sept.  21, 1859.  Ran  for  JST.  Y.  Assemblyman 
in  1860,  but  was  not  elected.  Is  Editor  of  the  Suffolk  County 
Gazette.     Address  :  Sag  Harbor,  Suffolk  Co.,  K.  Y. 

JEWETT   GUERNSEY    SMITH. 

Entered  Freshman,  Sept.  13,  1853.  Left,  Oct.  18,  1853.  flas 
studied  Theology  at  Yale  Theological  Seminary.  Is  now  in 
!N"ew- Haven. 

WILLIAM    MCCRACKEN    SMITH. 

Born  at  i^Tew-Haven,  Conn.,  Dec.  22,  1836.  Entered  Freshman, 
July  29,  1853.  Left  at  the  end  of  first  term  Senior  year.  Has  since 
divided  his  time  between  traveling  and  the  study  of  Law.  Ex- 
pects to  practise  Law  in  N'ew-York  City.  Present  address :  Care 
of  Chatfield  &  Hadley,  Times  Building,  N.  Y. 

WILLIS  CAREY    SMITH. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Clinton,  La.,  July  25,  1853.  Left,  N'ov. 
17,  1853.  Is  supposed  to  be  at  home  at  Clinton.  He  is  a  brother 
of  J.  J.  Smith  of '57,  and  w^as  one  of  the  youngest  members  of  the 

Class. 

ELIZUR   LEROY   SPERRY. 

Entered  at  the  end  of  Freshman  year,  from  Woodbridge,  Conn., 
July  24,  1854.     Left,  during  Sophomore  year. 

WALTER    SCOTT   STALLINGS. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Raleigh,  K  C,  Sept.  13,*1853.  Left, 
in  the  summer  of  1855. 

GEORGE   BUCKINGHAM    ST.  JOHN. 

15orn  at  Norwalk,  Conn.,  Sept.  14,  1832.  Entered  Junior,  from 
the  Class  of  1856,  Sept.  1855.  Left  soon  afterward,  and  has  since 
then  resided  at  Norwalk. 


STATISTICS. 


91 


JOSEPH    TABOK   TATUM. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  St.  Louis,  Sept.  15,  1853.  Left,  April, 
1854.  Graduated  with  the  Class  of  1859.  Is  engaged  in  reading 
Law  in  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

LUTHER    STEPHEN   TROWBRIDGE. 

Born  at  Troy,  Oakland  Co.,  Michigan,  July  28,  1836.  Entered 
Freshman,  Oct.  8,  1853.  Left,  his  eyes  not  being  strong,  Feb. 
1856.  Spent  the  summer  of  1856  on  his  father's  farm.  Com- 
menced the  study  of  Law  in  the  office  of  S.  D.  Miller,  Esq.,  De- 
troit, Dec.  3,  1853.  After  a  year  he  removed  to  the  office  of 
Lockwood  &  Clarke.  Admitted  to  the  Bar,  Oct.  1858.  In  Au- 
gust, 1859,  he  formed  a  Law  partnership  with  Hon.  A.  A.  Buel, 
of  Detroit.  Firm :  Buel  &  Trowbridge,  Attorneys  &  Counselors 
at  Law,  141  Jefferson  Ave.,  Detroit,  Michigan. 

HENRY    HOLMES   TURNER. 

Born  at  Quincy,  Adams  Co.,  Illinois,  Oct.  31,  1838.  Entered 
Sophomore,  Sept.  13,  1854.  Left,  and  entered  the  next  Class,  N"ov. 
13,  1854.     Graduated  in  1858.     Is  at  Denmark,  Iowa. 

JOHN   EMMETT  VINSON. 

Entered  Sophomore,  from  Elkton,  Tennessee,  Sept.  22,  1854„ 
Left,  March,  1855. 

JOHN   WILLETT   WADSWORTH. 

Entered  Freshman,  from  Washington,  D.  C,  July  29,  1853. 
Left,  some  time  in  1854. 

WILLIAM   WHITE. 

Born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Feb.  28,  1837.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  14, 1853.  Left,  April  12,  1854.  Graduated  at  Williams  Col- 
lege in  1858.  Has  been  at  Honolulu,  Sandwich  Islands,  since 
Dec.  20,  1858.  Expects  to  study  and  practise  Medicine,  "  as  he  is 
fond  of  it,  having  taken  a  great  deal  in  his  life."  Married  Miss 
Sophie  Hall,  of  Oahu,  April  19,  1860. 

ALBERT    BYRON   WILBUR. 

Born  at  Sharon,  Conn.,  Oct.  10,  1834.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  15,  1853.  Left  early  in  Junior  year.  Graduated  with  the 
Class  of  1858.     Is  teaching  at  Sunbury,  Gates  Co.,  North-Carolina. 


92  STATISTICS. 

JOHN    WILKES   WILKES  03Sr. 

Born  at  Buffalo,  N".  Y.,  Aug.  29,  1836.  Entered  Freshman, 
Sept.  14,  1853.  Left,  May,  1854.  Graduated  at  Union  College  in 
1857.  Remained  there  several  months,  studying  in  the  Higher 
Course.  Studied  Law  in  Buffalo,  and  at  the  Harvard  Law  School. 
Is  now  practising  Law  in  Kew-York;  office  at  No.  5  Beekman 
street. 

HENKY    WILLIAMS. 

Born  at  Frederick,  Maryland,  Oct.  26,  1837.  Entered  Fresh- 
man, Sept.  18,  1853.  Left,  Dec.  20,  1853.  Studied  for  some  time 
at  the  University  of  Virginia.  Is  now  engaged  in  farming  at  his 
native  place. 

HOWAED   CORNELIUS    WILLIAMS. 

Born  Jan.  28,  1836.  Entered  Freshman,  from  Ithaca,  IsT.  Y., 
having  been  in  the  preceding  Class,  Sept.  14,  1853.  Left,  April  10, 
1854.  Went  to  Hamilton  College,  and  is  supposed  to  have  gradu- 
ated in  1857.     Is  in  the  Flour  business,  at  Ithaca. 


SUiMARY  OF  STATISTICS  OF  NON-GRADUATES. 


Number  of  Non- graduates  enumerated,  It. 

Left  during  Senior  Year. — ^W,  McO.  Smith. — 1. 

Left  during  Junior  Year. — Heermance,  Janin,  M.  S.  JSklanchester,  Mueller,  D.  G. 
Porter,  Ransone,  Trowbridge,  St.  John,  Wilbur. — 9. 

Left  during  Sophomore  Year. — Baker,  Beveridge,  Bishop,  Browning,  E.  M. 
Ohamberlin,  Decker,  Doughty,  Gibbs,  E.  D.  Grant,  Hayes,  H.  "W.  Hubbard,  J. 
Lovewell,  Lyles,  Monroe,  Moore,  Moss,  Pumpelly,  Seibold,  Sims,  Turner,  Vinson, 
—21. 

Left  during  Freshman  Year. — L.  H.  Adams,  Andrews,  F.  R,  Avery,  Bedford, 
Bennett,  Carpenter,  Colton,  Cruger,  Crommelin,  Cutler,  Easter,  Forster,  Fowler, 
C.  P.  Freeland,  Greene,  Herrick,  C.  H.  Hubbard,  Johnson,  Kellogg,  Luzenberg, 
McMillan,  McNeill,  D.  "W.  Manchester,  Moulthrop,  Mullins,  0.  C.  Nichols,  J.  M. 
Nichols,  Piatt,  Potter,  E.  P.  Pratt,  Richardson,  Scott,  Schoener,  Slate,  Sleight,  J. 
G.  Smith,  W.  C.  Smith,  Sperry,  Stallings,  Tatum,  Wads  worth.  White,  Wilkesou, 
H.  Williams,  H.  C.  Williams.— 45. 

Graduated  at  Yale  in  1858. — ^Bennett,  E.  D,  Grant,  B.  L.  Heermance,  Johnson, 
Kellogg,  J.  Lovewell,  Potter,  Pumpelly,  Scott,  Sleight,  Turner,  Wilbur.— 12. 

Graduated  at  Yale  in  1859.— Tatum.     In  1860. — Greene. 

Graduated  in  Arts  at  other  Colleges. — L.  H.  Adams,  Browning,  (?)  Carpenter, 
Cutler,  Doughty,  Herrick,  Luzenberg,  McNeill,  Monroe,  J.  M.  Nichols,  Richardson, 
White,  Wilkeson,  H.  C.  Williams.— 14. 

Married. — ^F.  R.  Avery,  Bedford,  Browning,  Cruger,  Decker,  Herrick,  E.  P, 
Pratt,  Seibold,  White.— 9. 

Deceased. — Dorriss,  Easter,  Fowler. — 3. 

Engaged  in  Theology. — ^L.  H.  Adams,  Cutler,  Greene,  Heermance,  Herrick, 
Luzenberg, — 6. 

Law. — Beveridge,  Browning,  Carpenter^  Chamberlin,  Decker,  Doughty,  Forster, 
E.  D.  Grant,  Janin,  Johnson,  D.  W.  Manchester,  M.  S.  Manchester,  Moore,  Richard- 
son,  Scott,  W.  McC.  Smith,  Tatum,  Trowbridge,  Wilkeson. — 19. 

Medicine. — Bennett,  C.  H.  Hubbard,  McNeill,  Monroe,  Mullins,  White. — 6. 
-  Teaching. — J.  Lovewell,  Mueller,  Potter,  Wilbur.— 4, 

Politics.  — Sleight. — 1 . 

Literature. — D.  G.  Porter. — 1. 

Agriculture. — Bedford,  Kellogg,  E.  P.  Pratt,  Pumpelly,  H.  Williams.— -5, 

Mercantile  Pursuits. — Avery,  Baker,  Cruger,  0.  P.  Freeland,  H.  W.  Hubbard. 
C.  C.  Nichols,  J.  M.  Nichols,  Seibold,  Sims,  Slate,  H.  C.  Williams.— 11. 

Unknown  to  the  Secretary. — Andrews,  Bishop,  Colton,  Crommelin,  Gibbs,  Eaves, 
Lyles,  McMillan,  Moss,  Piatt,  Ransone,  Schoener,  J.  G.  Smith,  W.  C  Smith, 
Sperry,  Stallings,  Turner,  Vinson,  Wadsworth. — 19'. 


